The Pittsburgh Steelers are expected to have a pretty significant mass exodus of talent in free agency in 2021 the likes of which they have not seen in several years. With Bud Dupree, JuJu Smith-Schuster, James Conner, Alejandro Villanueva, Matt Feiler, Mike Hilton, and others all hitting free agency at the same time, it’s impossible for them to keep all the talent around. Many of the names listed above, if not all of them, will be in another uniform next year.
Smith-Schuster is likely one of them, a reality the Steelers have been preparing for by continuing to draft wide receivers—James Washington, Diontae Johnson, and Chase Claypool so far, with surely more to follow.