Cam Hayward is a smart guy, my friends, one of the smartest I've had the good fortune to cover in my many years around this football team.

But this, this is dumb. Good morning to you. Good Friday morning. I'm Dan Kovachievich

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Either Cam or his agent or both did something really dumb yesterday and I'm sorry that I can't find a softer adjective for it than dumb.

Either Cam or his agent or both went to a reporter who doesn't even cover the Steelers and shared

their sentiment that Cam should be getting a restructured contract from the Steelers.

Right now, less than a year after his most recent extension

that'll pay him $29 million over two years,

an extension that, by the way, was seen by a lot of people,

including right here in Pittsburgh,

as a risk for the Steelers, considering that Cam is now 36.

That contract coming after Cam had a wonderful year, all pro season, spectacular stuff,

actually outplayed that contract.

But his salary, what he's making this coming season, is 14.75 million.

Of that, 13.45 million, almost all of it, was already paid to him as a roster bonus in March.

So the first area of dumb here, if you will,

is going through everything that he went through last summer

and everything that Omar Khan and everybody associated with the Steelers went through

to get him an extension that very much could have been seen as a risk.

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