Pittsburgh Steelers Sign Minkah Fitzpatrick to Five-Year Deal, Make Him Highest Paid NFL Safety Ever

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🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Chris Carter, NFL and NCAAF analyst, hosts the Locked on Steelers podcast. Breaking news! The Pittsburgh Steelers announced Wednesday that they had signed two-time First Team All-Pro safety Minkah Fitzpatrick to a five-year deal, four-year extension that keeps him with the team through the 2026 season. Fitzpatrick was on the final year of his rookie deal and the new agreement gives him a four-year extension worth reportedly an average of $18.4 million per year. That makes Fitzpatrick the highest paid NFL safety in the history of the league, with his deal getting him approximately $73.6 million over the four years of his extension. That's more than Jamal Adams, Justin Simmons, Harrison Smith and the rest of the big name safeties in the NFL. The deal also comes in before the Cincinnati Bengals could get an agreement with Jessie Bates or the Los Angeles Chargers with Derwin James. It's an important move for Omar Khan to get out in front of the coming safety market and set the rate that other teams have to work around as the NFL salary cap increases in the coming years. CALL INTO THE SHOW AT 412-223-6644 or if international, e-mail your audio message to LOSTEELERSTOPICBAG@GMAIL.COM Follow Chris Carter on Twitter: @CarterCritiques. Theme music is 'Soul Kick' by Ceddy P, and 'Too Easy' by Nerdboy. Both from their label Renaissance Music. Find more from their label here. This show is part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Athletic Greens To make it easy, Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/NFLNETWORK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Chris Carter of the Locked-on Steelers podcast.
0:04.3	We have a breaking news update here to talk about, and it is that Mika Fitzpatrick Steelers,
0:09.1	two-time all-pro safety, has signed a four-year contract extension, making it a five-year
0:14.7	deal on top of his current year that was left on his current contract to stay with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
0:20.0	The deal reportedly from Adam Schefter will make him the highest paid safety in the NFL.
0:26.5	Now, when we do things in your lockdown Steelers podcast and we have a full episode,
0:30.7	this is a breaking news update on this situation because this is huge news for one of the best
0:36.3	players in the league and one of the best players on the team the on the team make of Fitzpatrick's deal we knew was going to get done at some point this is not a surprise to see this getting done this is why we were saying what you were hearing report that he wasn't practicing in full at mini camp and that he wasn't and that the state there wasn't still a contract agreement we knew this
0:54.8	was coming the steelers had the money they had the opportunity they loved him he loved them
0:59.6	this was always going to happen but the question was how much would it happen for and would
1:05.7	his contract happen before other big names safeties like jesse bates derwin james anyone else out
1:10.8	there got their
1:11.7	major deals because right now with the expanding salary cap, it was important for the Steelers
1:16.0	to get in front of any other safeties who could make major money and get this deal done so they
1:21.5	could get Mick and Fitzpatrick at a great rate. And in my opinion, they did. 18.4 million dollars of the reported average per year base of the four years added on to
1:31.9	Mika Fitzpatrick's deal, which again, which now keeps him on and steal for the next five seasons
1:37.3	through the end of the 2026 year.
1:39.8	So again, four-year extension on top of 2022 that he's already signed to because of his fifth year extension on his rookie deal.
1:47.6	So he's going to be there for a while.
1:49.6	This is a rate that if you're looking at $18.4 million over those four years, that's a higher average than that of Jamal Adams, whose current contract averages to about $17.5 million for the year.
2:01.4	And that if you look at the numbers four years, $18.4 million over those extended seasons,
2:06.3	that's $73.6-ish million to McEvich Patrick.
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