NFL<\/a> career.<\/p>\n“I’m looking to be valued,” he said. <\/p>\n
“I know what I bring to this team and what I’m capable of on and off the field, so it’s hard for me, after the year I’ve had, to really justify playing at the number I’m playing at.<\/p>\n
“I understand. I signed a contract last year, but to be completely honest with you, when I signed that, I told him when I have an All-Pro year expecting me to come back and you can look at the contract and see what it was. <\/p>\n
NFL important dates 2025 season<\/p>\n
March 12 – Free Agency begins<\/p>\n
April 24-26 – NFL Draft in Green Bay, Wisconsin<\/p>\n
September 4 – 2025 season opener (TBC vs Eagles)<\/p>\n
November 27 – Thanksgiving Day triple header<\/p>\n
January 4, 2026 – End of regular-season<\/p>\n
February 8, 2026 – Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California<\/p>\n
“But I think everybody kind of giggled a little bit, but in my head, I used it as motivation to go out there and prove it.”<\/p>\n
Heyward was a Pro Bowler and first-team All-Pro last season, but didn’t have any clauses in his contract to increase his pay based on performance<\/p>\n
He is now looking for financial incentives such as turning his future roster bonuses into guarantees.<\/p>\n
“In my eyes when I look at it, they could have cut me last year,” he said. <\/p>\n
“The way I was approached, I was asked to take a pay cut, and we ended up getting a deal done. <\/p>\n
“But when I look at the market, and I look at what I’ve done, it’s hard to really wrap my head around playing at a number where I’m not even half of what the rest of the market is.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Pittsburgh Steelers are at risk of losing one of their top defensive stars. Cameron Heyward is suggesting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,6,520,57,2360,578,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-282383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-pittsburgh","11":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","12":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","13":"tag-section-sportamerican-football","14":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115016317387367273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282383","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=282383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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