When is the Le'Veon Bell Back?
The threat of fast approaching the regular season has eliminated a one-week shot to sign a contract. Aaron Rodgers, Odell Beckham Jr., Aaron Donald and Khalil Mack all received fresh offers (and trade, in the case of Mack). Only one player has not been reported: Steelers rerun Le'Veon Bell.
For the second year in a row, Pittsburgh put the franchise brand at Bell, and running back cannot return to the team so he signed a tender for $ 14.54 million. The final date for the team signed the player who marked the franchise to the extension that was approved on July 16, so the Steelers could not consult Bell so that after the season was over, the franchise could agree to pay more than the tender.
Bell had distanced himself from all the Pittsburgh team's activities since the final date on July 16, making the second consecutive summer that fled the training camp and the preseason game to send messages to the Steelers front office. Last season, Bell reported nine days before the Steelers Week 1 match. Now there are five days so the first game is Steelers, and as a publication, he has not been reported to sign his francais tender.
On Friday, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Bell had told several teammates that he would return to the team on Labor Day. On the same day, Bell tweeted, "not believing fake news, I never said anything to anyone ..." The Steelers even issued a statement calling it absent, perhaps designed to put pressure on Bell to return to the team. "We are disappointed that Le'Veon Bell has not signed his French bid and joined his team mates," GM Kevin Colbert said Monday morning in a statement issued by the team. "Coach [Mike] Tomlin and coaching staff will continue to focus on providing players on our list for our regular season opener on Sunday against the Cleveland Browns."
What is Bell's chance to return this week ahead of Pittsburgh's first match? In July, Bell's agent, Adisa Bakari, was asked if Bell would take the same approach as last season - not participating in offseason work but appearing to play on Week 1 and Bakari saying, "Restricting something extraordinary is true."
Pittsburgh practice once again on Wednesday, which is usually the most important day of the week's game preparation because the team installed most of the game plans. Steelers club center Maurkice Pouncey was a reporter on Monday that he expected Bell to return on Wednesday, but Pouncey said he had no direct knowledge of Bell himself - he only knew that Bell was a competitive person.
Mike Florio from ProFootballTalk explained some possible results if Bell continued to hold back. Bell might be confused to understand the Steelers' understanding that he would get a big offer in January, or for the Steelers to be very frustrated that they were canceling the tender francais and he hit the open market now, because the team was ready to spring for Mack just a week before the season. Or Bell can try to preserve himself for the next open market offseason and return as quickly as possible to raise a one-year contract and play so far this season.
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