Pittsburgh Steelers to Sign Safety Damontae Kazee, Join Minkah Fitzpatrick/Terrell Edmunds Rotation

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🗓️ 1 May 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Chris Carter, NFL and NCAAF analyst, hosts the Locked on Steelers podcast. The Pittsburgh Steelers quickly got to work after the NFL Draft to add safety Damontae Kazee, a five-year veteran who's nabbed 12 NFL interceptions so far. Kazee played for the Atlanta Falcons for four years before playing the 2021 season with the Dallas Cowboys, where he nabbed two interceptions. He looks to fill out the Steelers' safety room with Minkah Fitzpatrick, Terrell Edmunds, Tre Norwood and Miles Killebrew. Kazee has made plenty of big hits, but is mostly known for his ability to make plays on the football with good instincts reading quarterbacks and taking advantage of mistakes. Could he, Fitzpatrick and Edmunds make for the Steelers' preferred safety trio? 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	Just hours after the NFL draft, the Pittsburgh Steelers made one more free agents to move after they rounded up their undrafted free agents in signing former Cowboys and Falcons safety, DeMonte KZ.
0:11.6	Now, KZ coming in will be 29 years old when the season begins, but he comes in with a lot of experience playing five years in the NFL with his drafted team, the Atlanta Falcons,
0:22.0	and one year with the Dallas Cowboys last season. He has amassed 12 interceptions over his time
0:28.6	in the NFL along with 17 pass breakups. Now, the thing is with KZ, the interesting
0:35.4	position that he'll be in, because this now is the third safety
0:39.1	that I was talking about that the Steelers might want to use in a rotation. This also indicates
0:43.6	the Steelers were looking at safeties in this NFL draft class, but ultimately opted for
0:47.4	different directions when those opportunities arose, which means now the question will be,
0:53.1	how will the rotation go?
0:54.5	We don't make a Fitzpatrick is going to be the deep safety, the free safety,
0:57.2	the main piece of the secondary that they work around this year.
1:00.6	But with Terrell Emmons coming back on a one-year deal in KZ being reported by Jeremy
1:04.5	Fowler to be signed to the Pittsburgh Steelers, by the way,
1:07.1	anticipate that to happen after on Monday, to be official on Monday after it's okay to do so without costing comp picks.
1:16.0	But KZ coming to the Pittsburgh Steelers then makes a ton of sense for the safety position because it gives you another functional starter who can rotate in if anyone goes down.
1:26.0	Now, I will say this about Casey.
1:28.4	This is a guy, if you don't know much about him, he can be a big hitter. He has made big hits in his career. He has seven
1:33.5	interceptions or excuse me, his 12 interceptions. He had seven in one season in 2018. He's played
1:39.2	between strong and free safety. The things that I like the best about him are his eyes. He
1:43.8	seems to process what's going on in front of him well.
1:45.8	He reads quarterbacks.
1:46.8	He makes plays in the ball, and he has good hands to reel in interceptions when he has the time.
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