Who the Pittsburgh Steelers should trade for to become unstoppable

In 2019 the Pittsburgh Steelers made a trade for Minkah Fitzpatrick heading into week 3. There is one guy they should trade for heading into week 4 of the 2020 season.

While the Pittsburgh Steelers had to ship their 1st round pick to acquire him, Minkah Fitzpatrick made all-pro in a 14 game stretch with the black and gold. Pittsburgh should ship their 1st round pick this season for another player who made their first all-pro in 2019.

Eric Kendricks. They could go so far as to mix in deep threat James Washington with other various draft picks possibly aside from a first-round to give the Vikings the deep threat they failed to replace when they lost Stephon Diggs.

Is he affordable for the Steelers?

Trade rumors were swirling around Kendricks heading into the 2020 season due to his large contract. The Vikings were able to restructure it, and as a result, he is carrying a cap hit of $5,514,375 in 2020. Now that the season is underway, and the Pittsburgh Steelers currently carry roughly 6.5 million under the cap he is more than affordable for this year.

After the restructure that the Vikings gave Kendricks, they can keep him for this year. But they may be left unable to afford him through the next 3 years of his contract, as the NFL salary cap may decrease in 2021, Kendricks’ cap hit is going to be more than double what it is in 2020. With the lack of success, the Vikings are having with a record of 0-2, it might be wise for them to enter rebuild mode. Especially, because their schedule is not looking like it will get much easier this season.

It may not make a ton of sense, for the future, to trade a first-round pick for Kendricks right now, but the difference between the Minnesota Vikings and the Pittsburgh Steelers is the state of each franchise. The Steelers are built to win now. The Vikings have yet to find a great franchise quarterback, have lost valuable pieces to what was recently an elite defense and lost one of their best players in Stephon Diggs in the 2019 off-season.