T.J. Watt Focused on Longevity Entering 9th NFL Season
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This article was originally published on www.si.com as T.J. Watt Had Brutally Honest Admission About Steelers’ Recent Playoff Struggles. T.J. Watt just signed a record-breaking three-year extension worth $123 million with the Pittsburgh Steelers, where he's been his entire NFL career thus far.
Despite his own individual dominance since entering the NFL in 2017, Pittsburgh Steelers star T.J. Watt is still seeking his first playoff win.
LATROBE, Pa. -- T.J. Watt is back in Latrobe with the Pittsburgh Steelers after signing his three-year, $123 million extension. However, while he is excited to meet many of the new faces, there is one under the radar name Watt really wnats to see more than most -- cornerback Cory Trice.
The Steelers are in their 55th year of training camp at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe. The players always bring some of their comforts of home as the team, for the most part, stays in the dorms for the entire training camp.
Watt hasn't won a playoff game, much less a Super Bowl, in eight seasons, but he thinks the Steelers' aggressive approach can change that.
The Steelers won a playoff game in January 2017. Just a few months before the Steelers made linebacker T.J. Watt the 30th pick in the draft. Since then, the Steelers haven’t won in the postseason. Which means that Watt never has.
Steelers' T.J. Watt is now the highest-paid non-quarterback in the NFL — and fellow edge rusher Micah Parsons has taken notice.