The Pittsburgh Steelers trade for DK Metcalf! Now they have two MASSIVE questions to answer!

Rob Gregson discusses the fallout from the Pittsburgh Steelers trade for DK Metcalf and what questions it poses for the team going forward.

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00:00It finally happened. Steelers GM Omar Khan picked up his phone, called the Seattle Seahawks and

00:05said let me have DK Metcalf. That gives the Steelers 2 dominant wide receivers on the perimeter

00:12but it also raises a lot of questions about what happens next in Pittsburgh.

00:20Hey everyone Rob Gregson of A-Z Sports Pittsburgh and today we're going to discuss the fallout of

00:25the DK Metcalf trade. To begin it starts with the quarterback position. On Sunday rumors were flying

00:33left and right. We heard much of what we already knew about Justin Fields which is that he wants

00:38to test the free agent market before he decides whether or not he's going to come back to

00:44Pittsburgh. Part of that stems from the fact that they benched him in 2024 and gave him little

00:50confidence that they won't do the exact same thing if not draft his successor come April.

00:57So the question is is it going to be Justin Fields? Is it going to be Russell Wilson who

01:02suddenly could be back with a wide receiver that he helped go to the Pro Bowl? Or could this be a

01:10play for something even bigger for a name like Sam Darnold? That's right multiple reports surfaced

01:17on Sunday that the Steelers are interested in acquiring Sam Darnold and before it was reported

01:24that the Steelers were interested guess who Sam Darnold was being linked to in free agency? Oh

01:28that's right the Seattle Seahawks who now have no real options other than Jackson Smith and Jigba

01:36in their wide receiver room and they are in a complete and utter rebuild. I don't know about

01:41you but Sam Darnold probably wants to mimic a situation that he just left in Minnesota and the

01:47Pittsburgh Steelers are a lot closer to that than they are the Seattle Seahawks. Beyond the quarterback

01:53questions however what happens next with George Pickens is a major question that the Steelers

01:59have to answer. Obviously Pickens is an immense talent and for the most part we've been talking

02:04about adding talent to go alongside George Pickens. But here's the thing DK Metcalf just

02:10signed a five-year 150 million dollar extension and has two years left on his remaining deal.

02:17That means he's going to be the Steelers wide receiver number one until he's 33 years old.

02:24All the while George Pickens is heading into the final year of his contract with no extension in

02:30sight. That raises a lot of questions obviously we're going into year four for Pickens the maturity

02:36issues they haven't gotten better quite frankly they have regressed for Pickens. So the Steelers

02:43have to decide are they going to trade him now are they going to let him play out his final year of

02:48his rookie deal and then try and trade him or tag and trade him or maybe he shapes up and sign him

02:56to an extension or does somebody come along now that they've signed DK Metcalf and offer a deal

03:03for George Pickens and they say here he's your problem now because as good as he is he is a major

03:09headache for the Steelers. So those are two questions that immediately following the DK

03:14Metcalf trade every Steelers fan is going to want the answer to and we should find out soon enough.