When the Pittsburgh Steelers signed Morgan Burnett to a three-year contract last offseason, they did so knowing that they were not going to view him as a long-term solution to the safety position. As evidence of that, they wasted no time using their first-round pick the following month on Terrell Edmunds, who would end up taking the starting role.
Edmunds’ emergence led to the Steelers releasing Burnett, who subsequently signed a similar contract with the Cleveland Browns a short time later. The former Green Bay Packers safety, now 30, figures to start alongside his former teammate up north in Damarious Randall.