As they head into the offseason with all three of their quarterbacks on the 53-man roster set to hit free agency, the Pittsburgh Steelers made a contingency plan for the 2025 season.

Skylar Thompson, who had limited playing experience with the Miami Dolphins this past season, was one of 17 players the Steelers signed to a reserve/futures contract Tuesday.

Thompson joins Russell Wilson, Justin Fields and Kyle Allen as quarterbacks on the offseason roster. Wilson, Fields and Allen, though, will become free agents in March unless they agree to new deals with the team.

Thompson was a seventh-round pick in 2022, the same draft that produced Kenny Pickett in the first round for the Steelers. In three years with the Dolphins, Thompson started three times and made 10 appearances.

For his career, Thompson is 1-2 as a starter, and he has completed 58.7% of his passes for 721 yards, one touchdown and three interceptions. His lone win came in the 2022 season finale against the New York Jets, and that ugly 11-6 victory kept the Steelers from making the playoffs as the final wild-card entrant.

Thompson completed 20 of 31 passes for 152 yards and no touchdowns or interceptions in that game. He was pressed into starting duty again the following week in the playoffs and was 18 of 45 for 220 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions in a 34-31 loss to the Buffalo Bills.

After being inactive for the 2023 season, Thompson entered this year as the backup in Miami, and he started in Week 3 at Seattle. In a 24-3 loss, Thompson completed 13 of 19 passes for 107 yards, no touchdowns or interceptions, and he was sacked five times. He did not attempt a pass the rest of the season.

Also signed to futures contracts were defensive back Joshuah Bledsoe, tackle Dylan Cook, defensive tackle Domenique Davis, linebacker Devin Harper, running back Evan Hull, defensive back D’Shawn Jamison, wide receiver Brandon Johnson, guard Steven Jones, linebacker Eku Leota, wide receiver Lance McCutcheon, defensive back Kyler McMichael, guard Doug Nester, linebacker Thomas Rush, running back Aaron Shampklin, defensive tackle Jacob Slade and linebacker Julius Welschof.

Cook, Harper, Jamison, Johnson, Leota, Nester, Shampklin, Slade and Welschof finished the season on the practice squad, and Davis and McCutcheon were members of the practice squad earlier last season. McMichael was on the training camp roster.

Bledsoe was a safety with the New England Patriots, appearing in four games over the 2022-23 seasons. Jones visited the Steelers for a predraft workout last spring and spent the season with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Hull has two games of NFL experience with the Indianapolis Colts, and Rush was with the Tennessee Titans last year.

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