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Scout's Eye with Matt Williamson: Do you let Nick Herbig walk?

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Should the Steelers keep and pay Nick Herbig or release him?

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Matt Williamson. How's it going? Uh, we are mailbagging it up tonight

0:11.2

today before I hop on a jet to go to Dublin. Pretty psyched about it. Travels not going to be

0:18.4

super great, but you know how that goes.

0:24.0

Just stick right in. We've got a bunch of questions. Good stuff as usual.

0:32.3

Bruce ain't here asked, what do you think we pay Herbig? Edgeroom is only getting older and he keeps improving. Seems like while early that Nick and Jack could be the future.

0:38.9

Well, let's, you know, first things last year.

0:41.3

Last thing's first.

0:42.7

I don't see Sawyer as a future.

0:45.0

I just don't.

0:45.8

I think he's a special teamer, fourth guy, run stuffer.

0:51.9

I am not putting faith in him as an impact edge rusher at all. Herbig, on the other hand,

1:00.4

I've kind of assumed that Herbig, not after this season, but after the next, would just leave,

1:08.9

you know, that he's going to demand a lot of money on the open market

1:11.7

and get a comp pick for him. He signs a decent deal somewhere else. And you got a lot invested

1:19.0

in Highsmith and Watt. And it's why I picked this question first, because after watching him

1:25.0

last week, and it's kicked around in my cranium for a while now,

1:28.3

but I just don't think you let that guy leave. I really don't. I think what you do while you have

1:36.1

the money when they have a lot this off season is you give them a nice extension now while,

1:41.9

or at next off season, and pay them them well and I know that's a ton of

1:47.8

money invested in the defense a ton of money invested in one position but edge rushers are

1:54.1

unbelievably valuable he is ascending and I just don't think you can let a guy like that walk no matter what, no matter how

2:03.1

you cut it. So he has not made a ton of money by NFL standards. Maybe get him at a little bit

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