Ask Alex: Steelers Mailbag

Steelers logoWelcome back to your Pittsburgh Steelers mailbag. As always, we’re here for the next hour to answer whatever is on your mind.

To your questions!

Mark O’Connor: Hi Alex, why not extend James Daniel’s contract? He is an above average player and McCormick is an unknown quantity. Thanks!

Alex: Preaching to the choir, man. I’ve asked and wondered the same. Maybe McCormick will be really good but it seems like a risk to take and assume for a fourth round pick making the small-school jump.

I suppose their issue is the guard market just got too hot. Kevin Dotson, Robert Hunt, and others got paid $16 mil+ this free agency. Daniels signed a deal making less than $9 million two years ago. So…