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Rooney Not Ready To Close Door On Possible Dupree Return: ‘We’d Love To Have Him Back’

There’s a very good chance that Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker Bud Dupree has played his last snap with the team that selected him in the first-round of the 2015 NFL Draft out of Kentucky. After all, Dupree, who is currently rehabbing from a torn ACL suffered in December, is scheduled to be an unrestricted free agent in March and the Steelers don’t figure to have the cap room needed to re-sign him. That all noted, Steelers team president Art Rooney II said Thursday that he’s not ready to completely rule out the possibility of Dupree returning in 2021.

“We’d love to have him back,” said Rooney of Dupree during a Thursday interview with Bob Pompeani on KDKA-TV.