The Pittsburgh Steelers did well to lock up two of their own most critical free agents—cornerback William Gay and guard Ramon Foster—to new three-year contract just prior to the formal opening of this year’s free agency period. Though Gay did spend one year in Arizona, both players have been cornerstones of what the Steelers of this era have come, and come to embody.
It is fitting, then, that their re-signing with the team that originally drafted or signed them—Gay was a fifth-round draft pick in 2007, Foster an undrafted free agent in 2009—will enable each of them to hit their 100 career starts in a Steelers uniform during the course of the 2016 season.