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Breaking: T.J. Watt Reportedly Signing Document-Breaking Contract Extension With Steelers


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Pittsburgh Steelers star exterior linebacker T.J. Watt will signal a long-term contract extension, based on ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter, ending an offseason standoff. The pending deal furthers the group’s publicly acknowledged mission of creating Watt a “one-helmet participant” who spends his total profession with the group. Per Schefter, Watt and the Steelers agreed to a three-year, $123 million extension with $108 million assured at signing.

Watt reacted to the information on his Instagram web page.

Watt is the newest top-end go rusher to receives a commission this offseason. He joins the Las Vegas Raiders’ Maxx Crosby, Houston Texans’ Danielle Hunter, and Cleveland Browns’ Myles Garrett. Watt’s $41 million in common annual worth tops the pass-rusher marketplace for the second, although Trey Hendrickson and Micah Parsons nonetheless have to receives a commission.

Earlier than the deal was reached, Watt made headlines this offseason over his contract standing. In April, he shared a cryptic picture of him waving a peace/goodbye signal that some interpreted as him being sad with the shortage of motion in his negotiations. Extra notably, he skipped the workforce’s three-day necessary minicamp that made him topic to over $100,000 in workforce fines. Mike Tomlin downplayed his absence and remained optimistic a deal would get accomplished.

Now, a contract has been reached, and Watt will totally work with the workforce beginning subsequent Wednesday when the Steelers report back to coaching camp at Saint Vincent Faculty in Latrobe.

That is the second mega-contract Watt has signed with Pittsburgh. The primary got here days earlier than the 2021 season started, Watt inking a four-extension value $112 million that made him the highest-paid go rusher in soccer.

This extension is one 12 months shorter than his 2021 deal and has him tied to the Steelers by means of 2028 along with his contract set to run out on the conclusion of his age-34 season.

Turning 31 in October, Watt is coming off a down 2024 by his excessive requirements. He completed the season with 11.5 sacks in 17 begins, his fewest in a non-injury season since his rookie 12 months in 2017. Together with the postseason, Watt went his last 4 video games with no sack for the primary time in his profession. Nonetheless, he recorded a league-high six compelled fumbles, made the Professional Bowl, second-team All-Professional, and completed fourth in NFL Defensive Participant of the 12 months voting.

Throughout eight NFL seasons, Watt’s notched 108 sacks. Final 12 months, he grew to become the second-fastest participant to achieve 100 sacks in official league historical past, solely trailing Corridor of Famer Reggie White. He tied the single-season document of twenty-two.5 in 2021. He’s the Steelers’ all-time sack chief and is rapidly climbing the NFL’s charts, coming into 2025 thirty first in official historical past. Watt is fourth amongst lively gamers at the moment on rosters solely behind Von Miller (129.5), Cameron Jordan (121.5), and Calais Campbell (110.5).