Bills LB Tremaine Edmunds headlines potential Steelers free-agent targets
Free agency begins March 15 at 4 p.m. ET.
Positional needs for Pittsburgh Steelers: LB, CB, T
Pittsburgh, which traditionally does not spend big for free agents, would have to make cuts to sign any of the league’s top free agents. The team must take advantage of QB Kenny Pickett playing on his rookie contract and build around him while it can. If the Steelers take the plunge into free agency, these players could be enticing.
Tremaine Edmunds, LB, Buffalo Bills
Edmunds, who recently completed his fifth NFL season, is only 24. For his career, he amassed 100 tackles every season in the league and 6.5 sacks, two forced fumbles and five interceptions.
Bringing Edmunds to Pittsburgh seems like something the Steelers would do. They have a history of reuniting bloodlines. (See T.J. and Derek Watt, for example.) His brother Terrell, also an impending free agent, has played strong safety for the Steelers the past five seasons.
Pro Football Focus ranks Edmunds as the No. 25 free agent in 2023, calling him a “truly freakish athlete.” However, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gerry Dulac doesn’t think the Steelers have the money to pay him.
