{"id":28797,"date":"2017-08-30T17:48:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T21:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=28797"},"modified":"2017-08-30T17:48:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T21:48:21","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-sign-joe-haden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2017\/08\/30\/pittsburgh-steelers-sign-joe-haden\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers Sign Joe Haden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/steelers\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/story\/0ap3000000837185\/article\/joe-haden-agrees-to-threeyear-deal-with-steelers?campaign=tw-nf-sf110291129-sf110291129&amp;sf110291129=1\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have signed<\/a> former Browns corner back <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/H\/HadeJo99.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Haden<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Haden, a two-time Pro Bowler, was released earlier today by Cleveland. Haden then <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AKinkhabwala\/status\/902962741446631424\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jumped on a flight<\/a>, where he met with the Steelers before signing a deal with the team. The deal, a three-year, $27 million contract, will award Haden with $7 million this season. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Haden was originally slated to make $11 million with the Browns this season. However, when Cleveland asked if he was willing to take $7 million, he declined. Today, Haden took that exact pay cut, but with the Steelers.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Steelers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Steelers<\/a> are signing CB Joe Haden to a 3-year, $27m contract, source said. $7m guaranteed in year 1.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/902989521591177216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Pittsburgh Steelers Sign Joe Haden<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Steelers are very familiar with Joe Haden. Haden has spent the first seven years of his career with Cleveland, playing Pittsburgh twice a year. As one of the only consistent upsides for Cleveland over that span, Haden has established himself as a high end corner in the NFL. In 2013, Haden was named a second team All-Pro. Haden has compiled 19 interceptions over his seven-year career. By releasing Haden, Cleveland has definitely saved money. However, they have also let go one of the only bright spots in a long and depressing stretch of losing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Super Bowl Contenders<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The move to sign Haden was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/blog\/pittsburgh-steelers\/post\/_\/id\/24844\/steelers-bank-on-joe-haden-to-solve-cb-problems-once-and-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extremely wise decision by the Steelers<\/a>. To begin, Haden will greatly strengthen the worst position on the Steelers at corner back. Also, Haden has the skill set to line up on a receiver in man and be effective. Pittsburgh also recently traded for tight end <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/McDoVa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vance McDonald<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This improvement to the roster shows that Pittsburgh is willing to make moves to capitalize on a talented team primed for a Super Bowl run. With the smart and aggressive addition of Haden, the Pittsburgh Steelers have increased their chances of winning a Super Bowl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Haden&#8217;s first regular season game in a Steelers&#8217; uniform will come against his former team on September 10th.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"hwARAhOpRqdYP8aOXYEXSw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/838032068\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'hwARAhOpRqdYP8aOXYEXSw',sig:'jCtDNc0dvo-Sa1KQZciNmaRw5IWBeeCWQ_xJsqwl9ks=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'838032068',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the Pittsburgh Steelers signed former Cleveland Browns cornerback Joe Haden to a three year, $27 million deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":28810,"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":[9,36],"tags":[264,61,1755,40,81],"class_list":["post-28797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-steelers","category-nfl-news","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-football","tag-joe-haden","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28797","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\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}