Any time a first-round pick is made available within the span of their rookie contract, they are going to come with some baggage in one form or another. Even through regime change, you don’t just walk away from a premium investment without giving it a fair shake unless it’s clearly in the team’s best interests.
Depending on the cost, you have to do some digging about what happened. The Pittsburgh Steelers were fortunate to get 2019 first-round quarterback Dwayne Haskins for the minimum with no guarantees after the Washington Football Team let him go, though.
That is perhaps one of the reasons that they are operating under a clean slate.