Alongside Cam Heyward, nobody has been the face of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ franchise in recent years than T.J. Watt. He has just one year remaining on his contract and his annual salary is lagging significantly behind the top of the market for pass rushers.
Extending him seems like the obvious path forward at 30 years old and still one of the best pass rushers in the league, but not everybody shares that opinion. Patrick Rooney Jr., while not a member of the Steelers organization in any official capacity, is a member of the family that has owned the Steelers since their inception in 1933.