This is a big year for Broderick Jones

This will likely be a make-or-break year for Jones, they're going to find out if he's their LT of the future. They can't afford to miss on him they need him and Fautanu to be their bookends, after the season they will need to make a decision whether or not to pick up Jones 5th year option.

 

Tackles are expensive (so is the entire OL when it comes to 5th year options, since they don't differentiate between the three positions), and currently rank behind only QBs when it comes to option year amounts. If Jones plays in 50% of the snaps or more he'll qualify for the second tier option. If he makes the Pro Bowl, he steps up to the third. This year the second tier for OL was $17.5M; the third was $21.2M.

He'll likely qualify for second tier, which will probably be $18M next year.

 

It's just amazing how good of a draft that year was. Who do we have left on the team?

 

All of them at the moment.

 

Huge year, time to put up or shut up.

 

He doesn't deserve it up to this point.

 

I have the feeling one way or another it will be an easy decision

 

I had heard of the tier rankings, but was not sure how they made the tier designations, unless he sucks really bad I do not think picking up the option is going to be a big decision, Dan Moore was not the best, but certainly not the worst and look at the contract he got. He certainly has to show growth, but these guys are not a dime a dozen either.

 

Actually it’s about 8.1M dimes a dozen

 

Broderick Jones panning out does wonders for Pittsburgh's Draft Plans for 2026. Broderick Jones not panning out will have a cataclysmic effect on those very same draft plans. Do or die for Broderick.


He was, and still is, my favorite player that Khan has selected. Not because he was Khan's first ever pick but because of the fact that I believed that Broderick Jones wasn't going to make it to Pittsburgh leading up to the 2023 NFL Draft. He is simply way too gifted and talented for me to throw the towel on him.


Tomlin botching his development hasn't helped. That said, he himself has had his own issues; hand placement and ducking his head at the point of contact when engaging blocks being his two biggest shortcomings still. He has to put it all together.


Here is hoping he can.

 

That's where guards and centers get a bit of a boost in that the range of top salaries considered for fifth-year options includes all offensive linemen. Currently the top guard APY is $23M, while the top center is $18M - there are seven tackles whose APY is north of $23M. It's not uncommon for teams to shift linemen to different slots along the line early in their careers, but I see a snap count provision to determine position being added somewhere in a future CBA.

There are four tiers. The first is the base, the second is based on snap count percentage, the third if the player makes one Pro Bowl, the fourth if they make two or more.

I tend to agree on Jones. At first I thought they'd be best agreeing on an extension - and depending on his performance this year that might still be the case - but seeing Moore, Jr. get a 4yr/$82M contract with over 50% guaranteed changed the landscape a bit.

 

It will be interesting for sure, he was drafted knowing he needed development, now he goes to LT, how much progress has he made and how far will he go. I think the question of extension will be based not so much on great play, but continual solid growth and improvement. The extension is expensive and guaranteed, but is less than even midlevel performers, so i he is growing and the potential is still through the roof you better take that extra yea, or if you already see it try and extend early, the cost is only going to go up.