The Facts:
What does the long-term contract extension for Steelers receiver Antonio Brown mean for the future of the Steelers’ other starting receiver, Mike Wallace? It may mean Wallace and the Steelers have no future together.
Reported by Profootballtalk.com
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
After Brown signed his deal, Steelers beat writer Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that there won’t be a new deal for Wallace. In other words, the Steelers are telling Wallace that his options are to sign his one-year tender and play this season for $2.7 million, or not to play at all. Looking further into the future, Bouchette says there is no way the Steelers franchise Wallace next year, but they would garner a compensation pick in the 2013 NFL Draft if he signed elsewhere. The other option is that Steelers could deal him this preseason if they can get what they want for him. Any team could have had Wallace for a first-round pick by signing him to an offer sheet during free agency this year, but no team did. Wallace seems to have painted himself into a corner. No doubt, there will be more coming on this story.
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