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Pittsburgh Steelers' Joe Schobert says trade from Jacksonville Jaguars 'came out of the blue'

PITTSBURGH -- When Jacksonville Jaguars general manager Trent Baalke told Joe Schobert he needed to talk with him after the team's final team meeting Thursday, the veteran inside linebacker knew something was off.

But Schobert hardly expected what Baalke told him next.

The Jaguars were trading Schobert, a splashy free-agent signing just a year earlier, to the Pittsburgh Steelers for a sixth-round pick.

"I think it came out of the blue from my perspective," Schobert said Sunday in his first interview since the trade. "Nothing really, no warning signs or predetermined stuff.