In 2021, TJ Watt remained in the training camp while waiting for a contract extension. He was present to avoid daily fines, but did not participate in work in the field to avoid injuries.
Watt ended up signing an extension of four years and $ 112 million three days before the start of the season.
It could go again.
A day after a report that Steelers have made a “Quite substantial“Offer Watt but” probably not “what Watt is looking for in his new agreement comes that nothing is imminent. Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Informs that the sides are talking to him “expectation that they will reach an agreement . . . before the start of the regular season. “
The sides can have “some resistance and not so fine obstacles on the road,” adds Dulac.
Steelers have a club policy that ends all negotiations once the season begins, so they have three months to resolve an agreement.
The new Watt agreement is expected to exceed four years and $ 160 million that the Browns gave to the Myles Garrett border corridor.
Watt, 30, led the League in the captures three of the five previous seasons, including the combination of the record of a single season of the NFL (22.5) in 2021. It is a professional bowler and a four times all-pr.
