Steelers news and commentary from Monday, April 22nd

Welcome to the Terrible Towel Tales, where we’ll highlight some of the latest stories permeating Steelers media for your reading pleasure every Monday through Saturday. In today’s news…

Steelers Named Reason Teams Shouldn’t Trade Up | Stephen Thompson, All Steelers

It seems like all options are still on the table for the Pittsburgh Steelers as the days and hours until the start of the 2024 NFL Draft tick away but one analyst points to one move that wouldn’t be prudent for them to make, based on recent history.

In 2019, the Steelers dealt picks No. 20, No. 50 and a 2020 third-round pick for the 10th overall pick, which they used to take Michigan linebacker Devin Bush. Independent of how Bush’s career shook out, ESPN’s Seth Walder sees it as an unsound move and criticized then-general manager Kevin Colbert for wasting extra picks to overpay for their eventual first-round selection.

Buy low, sell high: Steelers work draft-day huge trade sending Justin Fields to Broncos in new mock | Curt Popejoy, Steelers Wire

The Pittsburgh Steelers got a huge bargain when they traded a conditional sixth-round pick in the 2024 NFL draft to the Chicago Bears in exchange for quarterback Justin Fields. But in this mock draft scenario, the Steelers see that Fields has a big payday coming they don’t feel ready to commit to so they strike while the iron is hot and trade Fields to the Denver Broncos for their third-round pick (No. 76) and fifth-round pick (No. 136).

After the trade, the Steelers now have an extra high pick but it throws quarterback into the mix as a draft need.

Kaboly: Tyler Boyd Won’t Sign with Steelers ‘Unless Something Crazy Happens’ | Nick Farabaugh, Steelers Now

The Pittsburgh Steelers and Tyler Boyd deal is dead. That very much seems certain, and was largely reaffirmed on Saturday when Jeremy Fowler stated that the team still had not made a ‘hard offer’ for Boyd yet, which tracks with everything around the situation.

Andrew Fillipponi of 93.7 The Fan reported on Tuesday that the Steelers offered Boyd a two-year contract in the range of $10 million.