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Steelers 2-a-days: Chris Boswell due new contract, Miles Boykin a reclamation from Ravens
Editor’s note: From now until the first practice of training camp at Saint Vincent College, the Trib will be running through the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 90-man roster, assessing each player’s outlook for the 2022 season. The breakdown will go through the roster in mostly-alphabetical order, two per day, between June 11 and July 25. Contract data courtesy spotrac.com.
K CHRIS BOSWELL
Experience: 8th season
Contract status: $4.95 million cap hit in 2022, after which scheduled for unrestricted free agency
2022 outlook: Whatever happened to Boswell during a 2018 season in which so much went so wrong, it’s fair to say by now, can uncategorically be characterized as an aberration.
Boswell was very good before 2018, and he’s been even better since. Throwing out that season, his fourth with the Steelers, when he converted just 13 of 20 field goal attempts and had a career-high five misses on extra points, Boswell’s numbers leave him in the conversation for the NFL’s best kicker: 91% converted field goals (169 for 186), 95% made extra points (188 for 197).
Boswell even has shown signs the past two seasons of shaking a reputation he doesn’t have elite-level leg strength, making 8 of 9 kicks of 50 or more yards.
It all adds up to enough that the Steelers are expected to give Boswell a contract extension. Negotiations involving specialists are, well, a special case, so who knows how much difficulty the team and Boswell will have at coming to an agreement. But rest assured the Steelers would prefer to keep their reliable kicker around for a while longer.
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WR MILES BOYKIN
Experience: 4th season
Contract status: $2.75 million cap hit in 2022, after which scheduled for unrestricted free agency
2022 outlook: A former teammate of Steelers receiver Chase Claypool’s at Notre Dame, Boykin entered the NFL with similar credentials: each is 6-foot-4 and weighs at least 220 pounds, each scored plenty of touchdowns at a high-profile college program, and each was a second-day draft pick.
Boykin hasn’t had the pro career of Claypool, though. He’s managed only 33 catches for 470 yards and seven touchdowns in three NFL seasons, including one reception for 6 yards last season. That was enough for the Baltimore Ravens to waive Boykin on April 18. The Steelers scooped him up the next day.
That was 11 days before they took the first of the two wide receivers they would select in the first four rounds of the draft (George Pickens and Calvin Austin III). The once-barren Steelers WR depth chart all of a sudden is tough to crack.
Austin could be a fourth receiver to join Pickens, Diontae Johnson and Claypool as shoo-ins on the projected 53-man roster. Boykin was a significant contributor to the Ravens’ special teams — and he better be very good in that area if he’s going to stick with the Steelers at his cap hit in 2022.
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