While the Pittsburgh Steelers have been busier than ever in free agency, signing six outside free agents to contracts and bringing back several of their own—with more work to be done, of course—the reality is that they have not been able to retain everybody. Not even everybody that they hoped to retain.
The biggest name on that so far relatively short list is, of course, sixth-year wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, who signed a one-year, incentive-laden contract that has a surprisingly modest base value, but which could be worth over $10 million. During his appearance at the annual league meetings today, head coach Mike Tomlin confirmed that they were interested in retaining him.