The Pittsburgh Steelers and defensive lineman Cam Heyward have agreed to a new three-year, $45 million extension, sources told PennLive. Jeremy Fowler of ESPN first reported the news.

As a result, Pittsburgh keeps their star defensive lineman in the fold, and he remains a Steeler for the rest of his career.

In the deal, Heyward will get $16 million guaranteed, and the team has added $29 million in new money to the deal. However, that means that Heyward’s first year, which will be the 2024 season, is almost all guaranteed. He is under contract with the Steelers through the 2026 season when he will be 37 years old.

Heyward stated that he hopes to play two or three more seasons, and the deal allows him to accomplish that goal while Pittsburgh still has a stalwart in the middle of their defensive line. The Steelers seemed tentative to give Heyward the deal after coming off a season where Heyward suffered a significant groin injury. Heyward will have a signing bonus of $15 million.

With the signing, Heyward’s cap charge for the 2024 season drops significantly, and his base salary will likely increase in both 2025 and 2026. The Steelers can turn that into a signing bonus, or they could easily move on from Heyward with little guarantees left on the deal.

Over his career, Heyward has 80.5 sacks, three First-Team All-Pro nods, and six Pro Bowl selections. He was named the Walter Payton Man of the Year in 2023. Heyward, the Steelers’ first-round pick out of Ohio State in 2011, is the team’s defensive captain and is the lifeblood of the Steelers locker room. Now, he gets to finish his career with the Steelers.

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers have ruled out starting guard Isaac Seumalo for their Week 1 game against the Atlanta Falcons. Seumalo will reportedly miss three to four weeks with a pectoral injury, but Tomlin said the Steelers got positive news about his injury. He is week-to-week, but the Steelers are optimistic that he will return sooner rather than later.

As far as others go, the Steelers remain optimistic that wide receiver Roman Wilson, offensive tackle Troy Fautanu, cornerback Cory Trice, and running back Jaylen Warren will all play. Tomlin said that the Steelers will let all of those players guide them into how much of a role they will have on Sunday, but they all participated in Monday’s practice, which is a good sign for their availability for the week ahead.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Today is looking like another fantastic day with highs slightly below average and plenty of sunshine. 

Any Alert Days Ahead? There’s the potential for a First Alert Weather Day on Friday into Saturday due to gulf moisture passing by. The chance for this coming our way is lower today than it was yesterday.

Aware: Every year, Pittsburgh sees 92 days (June 15-Sept 2) with the average high temperature at 80 degrees or above.  Today’s average high is 79°.

Morning lows may be a little cool for most with us seeing temperatures dipping into the 40s in most places.  Highs today should hit the mid-70s.  I have us hitting 74° in Pittsburgh today. I had our high for today at 76° yesterday. 

While the worst will probably have moved off by the time you read this, there is some patchy fog around and fog is expected to stick around in spots through at least the 8:00 a.m. hour. Noon temperatures today will be in the upper 60s with light winds coming in out of the east. While I am going to call today mostly sunny, some high cloud cover should be expected to move in after 5 p.m.  Clouds will be the thickest south of Pittsburgh.

I have temperatures in the 80s on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. I can’t guarantee we hit 80 on Wednesday but it will be close. Each day should feel fantastic with low humidity levels.  

Our next rain chance comes late Friday into Saturday, but the chance for rain is looking VERY low right now. I am going to maintain a potential First Alert Weather Day at this time due to us watching what looks like a near miss of gulf moisture that will be sliding by. 

The system, currently sitting off the Texas coast just east of Corpus Christi, TX, will remain a broad area of low pressure as it moves inland sometime today. The chance for this cluster of showers to turn into a tropical storm (depression, storm, hurricane) has now dipped to nearly 0%. Yesterday modeling data was keeping this system on track to bring us some decent rain for places south of Pittsburgh.  

The track over the past 24 hours has really shifted south with the center of the system now expected to remain south of Jackson, MS, and Birmingham, AL. The eastern side of our state should still see plenty of rain from this system.  Not so much for us.

This is a big miss when it comes to rain because at this point model data is showing this being our best chance for rain over the next two weeks.

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