The Pittsburgh Steelers have two safeties from the 2018 NFL Draft class. They just made one of them—the one they didn’t have the chance to draft—the highest-paid safety in NFL history, giving All-Pro Minkah Fitzpatrick a four-year extension averaging $18.4 million in new money. The one they did draft, meanwhile, is staring at a second year of free agency in 2023.
That would be Terrell Edmunds, who didn’t have his fifth-year option picked up. And he obviously wasn’t given the franchise tag, either. The Cincinnati Bengals, however, did tag their own 2018 safety, Jessie Bates III—and then drafted Dax Hill in the first round.