Welcome to the Locked-on Steelers podcast. I am your host, Tony Serrino, and this is your daily dose of all things, Steelers.

Matt Ryan is now the highest paid player in the league. We have finally crossed the $30 million per year average.

Matt Ryan signing a five-year, $150 million deal with the Atlanta Falcons. I want to talk about the quarterback

position and where it is in football right now, especially given the fact that the Steelers

have just drafted Mason Rudolph, Ben Rothersberger's eventual replacement. There's a definite

shift happening between the highest paid quarterbacks in this league and then the

teams that are having the most success.

And I don't think that they're necessarily in the same category.

So we'll talk about that today.

I also want to talk about, you know, we've talked so much about this year's draft and

how the Steelers did in 2018 and what positions they missed out on and that kind of thing.

Let's talk about where this team is going to be a year from now.

Now that we know where this team went this year, what does 2019 look like for the Pittsburgh Steelers?

What are the likely choices the Steelers are going to have to make a year from now?

Before we do that, let's start with some news and notes.

Jason Witten, the tight end of the Dallas Cowboys,

agreeing to become the Monday Night Football Analyst alongside Play-By Play Guy Joe Tessator.

So there'll be a new crew for Monday Night Football this year,

Jason Witten retiring from the Dallas Cowboys to make this move.

I really enjoyed Joe Tessitore's work as a college play-by-play guy. He has a great voice,

very, very good as a play-by-play guy. And Jason Witten, you know, I think hopefully he's a good

analyst. You know, this is certainly this kind of Tony Romoification of the analyst position of trying

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