The Steelers Have A GREAT Chance To Kill Two Birds With One Stone...

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Rob Gregson talks about the latest news surrounding 49ers WR Jauan Jennings, and how it could give Steelers GM Omar Khan the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.

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00:00What if I told you that the most polarizing offseason in the history of the Pittsburgh

00:03Steelers was not done yet? That following some big news on Monday, that Omar Khan and the

00:08Pittsburgh Steelers have a chance to right two wrong and kill two birds with one stone.

00:16Flashback to around this time last offseason. What do we have? The Pittsburgh Steelers firmly

00:21entrenched with a trade discussion surrounding San Francisco 49ers star wide receiver Brandon

00:26Ayuk. What happens? It falls through. Ayuk and the Steelers, they can't come to terms. He stays.

00:30He signs a deal. And Omar Khan is just left at the altar staring, looking around at what just

00:35happened as he attempted to get a star wide receiver. Then you go to this offseason. Obviously,

00:40the Pittsburgh Steelers, they make up for that. They signed DK Metcalf. But they also trade away

00:45George Pickens. And now while we like Kavanass in the third, we're optimistic about Roman Wilson.

00:50There is a hole in that wide receiver number two role with the Pittsburgh Steelers. But guess what

00:55happens on Monday? In a very deja vu moment for 49ers fans and probably the 49ers front office,

01:00Jawan Jennings comes out and says, hey guys, I either want to be paid or to go someplace that's

01:06going to pay me. And he has every right. He just turned 28 years old. He's heading into the final

01:10year of his deal. And he was the San Francisco 49ers offense at times last season with obviously Ayuk

01:16being injured, Kittle being up and down, and then Debo Samuel not always being the same player that he

01:22once was. So for Jawan Jennings, it makes all the sense in the world why you want to get paid. And

01:28if you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, it makes all the sense in the world why you would trade for him.

01:32This is not as if we're asking the team to trade for Brandon Ayuk last year to go alongside with

01:37DK Metcalf. No, this is a player that is going to go for probably a day three pick, maybe, maybe a third

01:44rounder, probably a short to mid-range deal that's nowhere near what we just saw Garrett Wilson get

01:50paid on Monday, well over $100 million. This is a wide receiver number two, wide receiver number three

01:56type of player. This is a player that you stick into an offense where you want some easy buckets,

02:01some layups that we call some production that you can get over the middle of the field. He's a perfect

02:06fit for the Pittsburgh Steelers. But perhaps more importantly, he gives Omar Khan another chance

02:11to get back at the San Francisco 49ers and to add to a major hole on offense.

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