Twitter: Steelers release JJ Wilcox

[MichaelWinicki]

Are we talking about "Bad Angles" Wilcox?

That's the one!

 

[Corso]

Yucky icky... let him wander the Earth and learn Kung **.

 

[Denim Chicken]

I'm all for Terrell McClain, but no thanks on Wilcox.

I don't think he improves the team.

This is the correct answer

 

[cowboy_ron]

We need safety help and he knows the system. He was showing a decent amount of improvement here before leaving for free agency. May be worth a look on cheap deal.

If we re-signed him we would still need a safety.

 

[CowboyRoy]

We need safety help and he knows the system. He was showing a decent amount of improvement here before leaving for free agency. May be worth a look on cheap deal.

JJ Wilcox is horrible. But he is better than Heath. STill I would want neither of them. And yah, its sad when guys are wanting scrubs like Wilcox back.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Progress stopper. I would have preferred he stay in Putzburgh.

 

[Carson]

JJ Wilcox is horrible. But he is better than Heath. STill I would want neither of them. And yah, its sad when guys are wanting scrubs like Wilcox back.

No way. Heath actually makes plays lol

Heath is average
Wilcox is below average lol

 

[CowboyRoy]

No way. Heath actually makes plays lol

Heath is average
Wilcox is below average lol

Heath was backing up Wilcox. Case closed.

 

[speedkilz88]

He wouldn't be horrible for training camp depth if there were injuries you want some experience in the backup.

 

[Deep_Freeze]

No way. Heath actually makes plays lol

Heath is average
Wilcox is below average lol

Honestly, I think they both stink.

 

[LocimusPrime]

Man it only takes other teams a couple of monthes or a year max to figure out he's junky. It took us 3 I think.

 

[Carson]

Heath was backing up Wilcox. Case closed.

Well I’d hope so. One was a third round pick, the other was an UDFA.

But you won’t get an argument from me. Both need to be backups and special teams only.

 

[HardHittin'Witten]

 

[Vanilla2]

Is it August yet?

 

[dfense]

We need safety help and he knows the system. He was showing a decent amount of improvement here before leaving for free agency. May be worth a look on cheap deal.

a....no.

 

[The Quest for Six]

Hell NO, he couldn't cover his own shadow.....

 

[RJ_MacReady]

He was my pet cat from the 2013 draft, thought he could develop, but in the end, we wasted developmental snaps on him for 4 years (that could've been used on Heath). I hate saying "he sucks" about a player, especially a former pet cat (egg on my face), but JJ Wilcox sucks.

 

[buybuydandavis]

His scheduled salary was 3.125M which is likely why he was cut.
For a veterans minimum deal, he would be OK.

He was having his best season for us in his last year. It got him paid. If we get him back cheap, great.

I don't know who people think we're getting instead. Free agency and the draft are over. There will be cap casualties and cuts in July/August, but there's not a lot still out there.

Take him in cheap with a small bonus, and if something better comes along, take that. But turning up noses at a decent player now makes little sense.

And for a cover your *** pickup to for a year, a guy with years of experience here is ideal.

 

[Cowpolk]

Sign everyone

 

[DanA]

He's good enough to make the 53, especially with only three real safeties.

If it's for veteran minimum I'd bring him back, but to me he sits behind the three safeties we have, and I'm really only looking for him to pad out the special teams and play a backup/cover role. He's too good to be sitting on the street, not good enough to throw significant money at.