Though it seems the ship has sailed on the Pittsburgh Steelers trading for any San Francisco 49ers wide receiver, the team may have come close to pulling off a deal during draft weekend. On his GM Shuffle podcast, analyst and former NFL general manager Michael Lombardi dropped this nugget about how close Omar Khan might’ve come.
“There was talk that at the draft that Pittsburgh thought they had made a trade,” Lombardi told co-host Femi Abebefe. “Whether it was for Deebo or whether it was for Aiyuk, I don’t know. But then things kind of fell apart late.