{"id":14990,"date":"2024-10-20T03:06:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T03:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=14990"},"modified":"2024-10-20T03:06:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T03:06:16","slug":"breaking-steelers-expected-to-aggressively-pursue-big-move-at-nfl-trade-deadline-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=14990","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Steelers \u2018Expected to Aggressively Pursue\u2019 Big Move at NFL Trade Deadline: Report.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2178259576.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2178259576.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2178259576.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2178259576.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Mike Tomlin Steelers\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-dom-ready-time=\"148\" data-img-load-time=\"355\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span>CBS Sports&#8217; Jonathan Jones reported the Pittsburgh Steelers will be one of the league&#8217;s two most aggressive teams in adding another receiver before the NFL trade deadline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Pittsburgh Steelers\u00a0have failed in their attempts to land a wide receiver through a trade this year. There is now only about two more weeks before the NFL trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s still enough time for a team to make an impactful move for the 2024 season. And on October 19,\u00a0CBS Sports\u2019 Jonathan Jones reported\u00a0that the Steelers are \u201cexpected to aggressively pursue\u201d the wide receiver market before the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSources believe the\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0and Pittsburgh Steelers will be most aggressive in adding another receiver before the deadline gets here,\u201d\u00a0wrote Jones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Steelers were hopeful for\u00a0Brandon Aiyuk\u00a0back in August before he signed an extension with the 49ers. And Pittsburgh tried to get in the mix with\u00a0Davante Adams, who ultimately never took his sights off the Jets and\u00a0Aaron Rodgers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPittsburgh believes\u00a0Russell Wilson has returned to form from a few years ago, and the hope is he can operate Arthur Smith\u2019s offense more efficiently while opening up the vertical passing game. Coupling an improved offense with a stingy defense, Pittsburgh believes it is a contender in the AFC this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers are 4-2 this season. However, they are 28th in passing yards per game.\u00a0George Pickens\u00a0is the only Pittsburgh receiver with more than 10 catches through six games.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>How Badly do the Steelers Need WR Help?<\/h2>\n<p>Steelers fans have been clamoring for the team to add a receiver since the organization traded\u00a0Dionate Johnson\u00a0to the\u00a0Carolina Panthers\u00a0at the beginning of NFL free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Pundits have connected the Steelers to numerous receivers in free agency and through trades. Most notably, the Steelers nearly acquired\u00a0San Francisco 49ers\u00a0wideout\u00a0Brandon Aiyuk.<\/p>\n<p>But nothing significant has come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the Steelers have had\u00a0Van Jefferson,\u00a0Calvin Austin III\u00a0and\u00a0Scott Miller\u00a0lead the team\u2019s receivers in offensive snaps behind Pickens.\u00a0Jefferson has played\u00a066.5% of Pittsburgh\u2019s offensive snaps through six weeks, yet\u00a0he has\u00a08 catches for 62 yards.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers are hopeful the passing game improves with Wilson behind center beginning in Week 7. But the veteran quarterback could still badly use an improvement at WR2.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Who Could the Steelers Target on the WR Trade Market?<\/h2>\n<p>The wideout trade market shrunk this past week with the\u00a0New York Jets\u00a0acquiring Adams, and the\u00a0Buffalo Bills\u00a0landing\u00a0Amari Cooper. But for a couple different reasons, neither of those receivers were very realistic trade targets for the Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson coming back to Pittsburgh\u00a0is an interesting hypothetical, but it\u2019s not permitted under NFL trade rules.<\/p>\n<p>The most obvious potential receiver\u00a0trade target for the Steelers is\u00a0Mike Williams. Adams is set to make Williams expendable in New York. The Steelers were also interested in the veteran receiver this past offseason before he signed with the Jets.<\/p>\n<p>Jones also mentioned a plethora of other receivers who could be available before the November 5 trade deadline, including Panthers\u2019\u00a0Adam Thielen,\u00a0Cleveland Browns\u2019\u00a0Elijah Moore,\u00a0Tennessee Titans\u2019\u00a0DeAndre Hopkins,\u00a0Jacksonville Jaguars\u2019\u00a0Christian Kirk,\u00a0New England Patriots\u2019\u00a0Kendrick Bourne\u00a0and\u00a0New York Giants\u2019\u00a0Darius Slayton.<\/p>\n<p>Hopkins and Slayton have been popular topics in trade rumors involving the Steelers this year. Moore is probably not a realistic target for the Steelers, though, because he already plays in the AFC North.<\/p>\n<p>Thielen has experienced a strong career, but health has been a major issue for him in recent years. Kirk and Bourne are both veteran options still under 30 if the Steelers prefer a younger option than Hopkins, who is 32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GettyCBS Sports&#8217; Jonathan Jones reported the Pittsburgh Steelers will be one of the league&#8217;s two most aggressive teams in adding another receiver before the NFL trade deadline&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Steelers \u2018Expected to Aggressively Pursue\u2019 Big Move at NFL Trade Deadline: Report.. - Sport News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=14990\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Steelers \u2018Expected to Aggressively Pursue\u2019 Big Move at NFL Trade Deadline: Report.. - Sport News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"GettyCBS Sports&#8217; 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