{"id":210372,"date":"2025-07-16T01:28:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/210372\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T01:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:28:25","slug":"kaboly-explains-why-steelers-likely-arent-done-making-meaningful-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/210372\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaboly Explains Why Steelers Likely Aren’t Done Making Meaningful Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has been one of the most active offseasons in Pittsburgh Steelers history with multiple high-profile trades and free agent signings to transform the roster. It\u2019s a clear indication that the team intends on being a serious contender in 2025, but there is one glaring weakness on its roster at the moment. One Steelers insider believes they likely aren\u2019t done adding meaningful pieces to the roster.<\/p>\n

Mark Kaboly was asked if adding a safety is more pressing than landing a No. 2 WR.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would think that that\u2019s No. 1 on the list,\u201d he said Tuesday via 93.7 The Fan\u2019s Morning Show<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m not saying I\u2019m not a Juan Thornhill believer, but they based their whole organization on having competition and where\u2019s the competition at for a guy that nobody wanted last year who had a bad season for the Cleveland Browns?\u201d<\/p>\n

Thornhill was a solid\u2014but not great\u2014starter during his four seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs. He was much less impressive for the Browns over the past two seasons, and now he\u2019s expected to be the Steelers\u2019 starting free safety? Minkah Fitzpatrick hadn\u2019t been playing up to his contract, but he was still among the best safeties in the league at keeping a lid on the defense. They are prone to finding out exactly how meaningful he was to their defense if they view Thornhill as the definitive solution there this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if somebody gets hurt? You going with Miles Killebrew? I mean what do you have behind that?\u201d Kaboly said. \u201cI think that\u2019s all set up as a veteran guy that they would like to get, but that could be done in September when there might be somebody come free as well. That\u2019s why I think there\u2019s something else on the agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

There would be no better option than S Justin Simmons. If the Steelers could attract him to Pittsburgh, they would be set with a former All-Pro next to DeShon Elliott on the back end. Thornhill could go back to more of a rotational role and serve as a very solid No. 3 safety.<\/p>\n

Simmons recently explained why he\u2019s still a free agent<\/a> this late in the process and what he\u2019s looking for in his next team. He wants to go to a contender, and he could be one of the missing pieces toward making the Steelers a serious one.<\/p>\n

Unless they want to re-live the struggles of 2023, when they were signing free agents off the street to start at safety, the Steelers need to add just one last piece to their defense before the start of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This has been one of the most active offseasons in Pittsburgh Steelers history with multiple high-profile trades and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[8740,7,10781,5241,11380,691],"class_list":{"0":"post-210372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-93-7-the-fan","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-juan-thornhill","11":"tag-mark-kaboly","12":"tag-the-fan-morning-show","13":"tag-trending"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114860320778056706","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}