Steelers sign Ramon Foster to a one-year deal. The RFA was give a contract for $1.26 MM. and will then be an UFA next year if the Steelers don't extend his contrct. Foster was an undrafted free agent out of Tennessee. He's been reliable, starting 26 games in three season including 22 of of the least 24. The Steelers are expected to retain their remaining five restricted free agents — Doug Legursky, Keenan Lewis, David Johnson, Ryan Mundy and Mike Wallace.
SPEAKING OF WALLACE: Now that the 49ers have added Mario Manningham and Randy Moss, the Patriots have added Brandon Lloyd, Donte Stallworth and Anthony Gonzalez, and both teams now appear set to stick with the receivers they have and interest in Wallace is apparently drying up. One thing this shows is how much NFL teams value their first-round draft picks. Wallace is a tremendous receiver, one of the best deep threats in the league, but even his talent isn’t enough to make many teams interested in shipping a first-round pick to the Steelers as compensation, which is what it would take to sign Wallace away. It also may show that Wallace is asking for more than he’s worth, taking about makingmore than the likes of Larry Fitzgerald. Not likely.
It also appears the Steelers are locked in on Alabama's LB Dont'a Hightwoer for their first round pick. At 6'4" and 260 pounds he'd make a great ILB. How about him and James Harrison on the same side of the defense? Or even him and Woodley? Oy!
And for some reason the Steelers apparently do not want Daniel Sepulveda back. Could it be three injuries to the same knee in three years? Probably. If Sepulveda doesn't return that will make a total of five verterans the Steelers have parted ways with thus far: Ward, Farrior, Smith, Keomeatu and Sepulveda.
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