The Steelers announced on Monday that they will not be picking up the fifth-year option for safety Terrell Edmunds, their 2018 first-round pick.
I was a little shocked by this development, especially since it felt like the next step closer to tearing down a darn-good secondary that took Pittsburgh a long time to build into a force.
The first domino to fall was the free-agent defection of slot corner Mike Hilton in March. That wasn’t much of a surprise, and it helped that Cameron Sutton, who ultimately got a new deal of his own, was waiting in the wings to step in and take Hilton’s place.