The 2025 NFL Draft is still a few weeks away, but that isn’t stopping the NFL media from already looking ahead to the biggest potential free agents in 2026. The Pittsburgh Steelers have a few players at the top of that list, and it remains a mystery how they will go about handling those contracts before the start of the 2025-26 season, let alone after.
In a 2026 free agency preview, Sports Illustrated’s Matt Verderame ranked the top 23 players with contracts expiring in 2026. Unsurprisingly, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy was number one. The Steelers had two players make his rankings: T.