Jan. 9, 2026, 6:31 a.m. ET<\/p>\n
One of the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>‘ biggest offseason decisions \u2014 whether or not to pick up offensive tackle Broderick Jones<\/a>‘s fifth-year option \u2014 may be more straightforward than originally believed, according to one prominent insider.<\/p>\n On Wednesday’s edition of 93.7 The Fan, insider Mark Kaboly claimed the Steelers<\/a> wouldn’t pick up Jones’ fifth-year option this upcoming offseason.<\/p>\n “I think that decision\u2019s been made. No, absolutely not. I don\u2019t think they pick up Broderick Jones,” Kaboly said<\/a>. “It\u2019s been four or five straight years, four years, that they haven\u2019t picked up an option.”<\/p>\n Selected with the 14th overall pick in the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft, Jones has had his fair share of struggles during his first three years with Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n Appearing in 45 games and making 38 starts at both left and right tackle, Jones will likely head into the 2026 season without a fifth-year option, needing a strong performance in Year 4 to earn a solid contract extension with Pittsburgh after left tackle Dylan Cook has emerged as a starting option over the past several games.<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n For up-to-date\u00a0Steelers\u00a0coverage, including Pittsburgh\u2019s wild-card playoff matchup against the\u00a0Houston Texans<\/a>, follow us on X\u00a0@TheSteelersWire<\/a>\u00a0and give our\u00a0Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0a like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 9, 2026, 6:31 a.m. ET One of the Pittsburgh Steelers‘ biggest offseason decisions \u2014 whether or not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[942,73,75,74,29044,38167,543,41758,41759,15077,13620,2173,2533,648,8757,14298,544,535],"class_list":["post-83002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-accessfree","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sstssportsnflsteelers","tag-sstsnsteelers","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagbroderick-jones","tag-tagdylan-cook","tag-tagfacebook","tag-taghouston-texans","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagpittsburgh-steelers","tag-tagsmg-timely","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83002","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=83002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}