{"id":14348,"date":"2017-03-01T14:50:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=14348"},"modified":"2017-03-01T14:53:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:53:16","slug":"james-harrison-to-sign-2-year-deal-with-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2017\/03\/01\/james-harrison-to-sign-2-year-deal-with-steelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers to Re-Sign James Harrison to Two-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linebacker <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/H\/HarrJa23.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Harrison<\/a><\/strong> signed a 2-year, $3.5 million contract that keeps him with the team through the 2018-2019 season. Harrison has spent 13 of his 14-year career with the Steelers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">James Harrison and Steelers reached agreement on 2 year, $3.5 million deal, per source.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/837013216962179073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Report: Steelers to Re-Sign James Harrison to 2-Year Deal<\/h2>\n<p>Harrison started seven games last season and played in 15 games. He registered five sacks while primarily being in a backup role. Harrison&#8217;s starts were more because of injuries to projected starters like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/D\/DuprAl00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bud Dupree<\/a><\/strong> and because of underperforming <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JoneJa05.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jarvis Jones<\/a><\/strong>, a former first-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being 38 years old, Harrison is still a valuable asset to the Steelers&#8217; defense.\u00a0He obviously has great experience and knowledge to bestow on the young linebackers the Steelers have acquired over the past few seasons. Unlike a coach, the younger guys get much more out of playing <em>with <\/em>Harrison rather than getting\u00a0only coached by him. If you follow Harrison&#8217;s Instagram account, you get merely a glimpse of his work ethic. That kind of veteran, one who is still hungry and works extremely\u00a0hard, that can become infectious among other teammates.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers have long believed in a good pass rush. They&#8217;ve drafted linebackers in early rounds in drafts over the past few seasons, and the Steelers value Harrison&#8217;s contributions on and off the field. Head coach <strong>Mike Tomlin<\/strong> obviously has somewhat of a close relationship with Harrison. Harrison had retired in 2014, just after the season had began. When Jarvis Jones and other linebackers went down with injury, Tomlin called newly-retired Harrison if he was interested in a comeback. Harrison signed with the Steelers for the remainder of the season and has been with the team since.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison, undrafted out of Kent State, will be 40 at the end of this new 2-year contract. Harrison&#8217;s first NFL season was in 2002. He spent time on the Steelers&#8217; practice squad, along with the Raven&#8217;s practice squad. In 2004, he finally earned a place on the Steelers&#8217; roster. He is a two-time Super Bowl champion (XL and XLIII), five-time pro-bowler, two-time All-Pro, and was the 2008 Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/92425919\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/92425919?et=quy0Nl5QTat_fCOiP8Vq3Q&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=EQGQEE1lsw6DFnalGck76cdk0W3KP43CAidiL4RZiZQ=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linebacker James Harrison signed a 2-year, $3.5 million contract that keeps him with the team through the 2018-2019 season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1828,"featured_media":14359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[61,723,40,1608,81],"class_list":["post-14348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-steelers","category-featured","tag-football","tag-james-harrison","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-free-agency","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"modified_by":"Parker Hurley, Team Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}