The Indianapolis Colts have reportedly agreed to trade veteran huge receiver Michael Pittman Jr. to the Pittsburgh Steelers, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported on Monday.
The Steelers are giving him a new three-year, $59 million contract, ESPN’s Aam Schefter reports. Prior to the trade, he was coming into the ultimate yr of a three-year, $70 million contract extension signed with the Colts again in March of 2024.
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Pittman is coming off a down season with the membership, having posted his lowest receiving whole since his rookie marketing campaign, ending the yr with 784 receiving yards. He did, nonetheless, handle a profession excessive of seven receiving touchdowns within the 2025 season, which led the staff.
The information comes following phrase that Indy signed impending free agent huge receiver Alec Pierce to a new four-year, $116 million contract.
Pittman has spent every of his six seasons within the league with the Colts since being chosen within the second spherical of the 2020 NFL Draft, popping out of USC. Now, he rounds out the huge receiver room in Pittsburgh, which has desperately wanted some depth behind star DK Metcalf.
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The trade for Pittman now marks the second splash trade for huge receiver that Pittsburgh has revamped the previous two offseasons. Last March, the Steelers acquired Metcalf from the Seattle Seahawks in change for a second-round choose. The staff then signed him to a profitable five-year, $150 million contract. He completed his first season with the Steelers with a career-low 850 receiving yards.
Among Pittsburgh’s departing wideouts this offseason are 2022 fourth-round choose Calvin Austin III, who’s scheduled to turn into an unrestricted free agent at the beginning of the new league yr, in addition to Adam Thielen, who announced his retirement from the NFL in January.
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Still a query mark for the franchise is who will throw its huge receivers the soccer this yr; future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers is a pending free agent. While the door is open for a return in 2026, Rodgers indicated throughout an look on the Pat McAfee Show final week that he has not yet received a contract offer from the Steelers — neither is he a lock to play, with retirement nonetheless a risk.