Either scenario puts wide receiver as one of the Steelers top needs for the 2025 NFL draft and/or free agency. In NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah’s first mock draft of the year, he was looking to the present and the future with the Steelers pick of Texas wide receiver Matthew Golden.

Golden took over as Texas' top wide receiver when Isaiah Bond suffered an injury that forced him to miss or be limited for much of the College Football Playoffs. Once that happened, Golden turned into the team’s top target on an offense that needed a spark, and he made multiple big plays down the stretch.

The Baltimore Ravens have re-signed former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Anthony Miller to a future contract for the 2025 season,

Wide receiver is the team’s top roster need going into the offseason if you exclude the quarterback position that is still up in the air. The first instinct is for the Steelers to look to the draft once again for help.

Former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Sammie Coates is becoming the head coach at Columbia High School in Huntsville, Alabama. Coates, who last played in the NFL in 2019 and played in the Canadian Football League through 2023, is now turning his attention to coaching.