\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Steelers and linebacker Nick Herbig have agreed to a new four-year contract worth $100 million, ESPN reported Tuesday.Herbig’s deal is reportedly for $100 million, with $42 million guaranteed.Herbig is entering the final year of his rookie deal, as is Joey Porter Jr. Neither participated in drills that were open to the public as Pittsburgh’s mandatory minicamp got underway Tuesday.”It’s my desire to be a Steeler for life,” the 24-year-old Herbig said after Tuesday’s practice. Hours later, the reports of his new deal broke.More news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube ChannelPorter is also looking for a contract extension with the Steelers.”That’s the business. Everybody knows I want to be out there, so I’m just going to do everything I can and take it day by day,” Porter said. “I’m going to let my agents and the guys upstairs really handle that kind of talk.”New head coach Mike McCarthy says he understands the business side of the NFL, but he is there to take care of the football side of things.”There’s a personal side to this, there’s a professional side to this, and when you break down the professional aspects of being in the NFL as a coach or a player, we all have contracts, so when those things occur, I really frankly just put that into a business category,” McCarthy said. “I’ve been dealing with it for 20 years, and the same advice I’ve always given. It’s a business decision and there are the things you need to do that are necessary.”Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The Steelers and linebacker Nick Herbig have agreed to a new four-year contract worth $100 million, ESPN reported Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n Herbig’s deal is reportedly for $100 million, with $42 million guaranteed.<\/p>\n Herbig is entering the final year of his rookie deal, as is Joey Porter Jr. Neither participated in drills that were open to the public as Pittsburgh’s mandatory minicamp got underway Tuesday.<\/p>\n “It’s my desire to be a Steeler for life,” the 24-year-old Herbig said after Tuesday’s practice. Hours later, the reports of his new deal broke.<\/p>\n More news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n Porter is also looking for a contract extension with the Steelers.<\/p>\n “That’s the business. Everybody knows I want to be out there, so I’m just going to do everything I can and take it day by day,” Porter said. “I’m going to let my agents and the guys upstairs really handle that kind of talk.”<\/p>\n New head coach Mike McCarthy says he understands the business side of the NFL, but he is there to take care of the football side of things.<\/p>\n “There’s a personal side to this, there’s a professional side to this, and when you break down the professional aspects of being in the NFL as a coach or a player, we all have contracts, so when those things occur, I really frankly just put that into a business category,” McCarthy said. “I’ve been dealing with it for 20 years, and the same advice I’ve always given. It’s a business decision and there are the things you need to do that are necessary.”<\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers and linebacker Nick Herbig have agreed to a new four-year contract worth $100 million, ESPN reported…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[79686,91717,4329,22628,91714,3281,91715,2092,3285,73,75,74,1833,5858,87,3622,21817,108,91716],"class_list":["post-208818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-action-sports","tag-business-business","tag-day","tag-deal","tag-herbig","tag-joey-porter-jr","tag-mandatory-minicamp","tag-more-news","tag-nick-herbig","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-public","tag-report","tag-steeler","tag-talk","tag-tuesday","tag-wtae-youtube-channelbefore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}