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ArticleSteelers have avoided franchise tag since Le'Veon Bell. Joey Porter Jr. may cha...
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The team's actions ever since seem to acknowledge that the path they chose with Bell was a pyrrhic victory for the front office. One that it has chosen to avoid with useful-to-great players like T.J. Watt, Diontae Johnson, Alex Highsmith, Pat Freiermuth
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Johnson was extended rather than tagged, reflecting Steelers' post-Bell negotiation strategy.

Wide receiver whom the Steelers chose to re-sign to a long-term extension rather than use the franchise tag, part of the team's pattern of negotiating deals with useful-to-great players since the Le'Veon Bell holdout.

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