The Pittsburgh Steelers thought they were getting themselves a starting safety when they signed Morgan Burnett to a three-year deal in 2018 worth nearly $5 million per season. They were wrong, though one can wonder how it might have gone differently if not for the rapid development of rookie Terrell Edmunds, who quickly took his place.
Burnett certainly wonders that, or rather, he doesn’t. He knows he could have been. He believes he will be now for the Cleveland Browns, whose general manager, John Dorsey, was part of the brain trust that drafted him in the third round in 2010 with the Green Bay Packers.