There’s nothing that a player who is coming up on free agency likes to see more than other players at their position cashing in, or fighting for the value of their group, because they know that can only mean good things for themselves down the line.
That’s where James Conner stands right now heading into 2020, entering the final year of his rookie contract and knowing that this could potentially be his last with the Pittsburgh Steelers, his local team and the team that drafted him in the third round in 2017.
He was on the Going Deep podcast recently—which you might remember from that infamous James Harrison interview a month or so ago—talking about a number of topics, but one thing that he was asked to talk about was Dalvin Cook.