Well find out in a little more than a week from now if Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt will be voted the 2020 AP Defensive Player of the Year. He certainly deserves to win the award for his play this past season but even if doesn’t, he can still expect the Steelers to reward him financially at some point during the offseason.
On Thursday, Steelers team president Art Rooney II held his annual end-of-the-season press conference and after that he sat down with Bob Pompeani of KDKA-TV for an interview. During that interview, Rooney was asked about Watt and how big of a priority it will be this offseason to get the team’s former first-round draft pick out of Wisconsin signed to an extension this coming offseason.