Or is the idea of signing Honey Badger seem like not the best idea with Edmunds on board?

https://steelersdepot.com/2019/02/ho...ng-this-march/

Assume that Davis stays at FS. Mathieu's best position to play the most downs would be SS (I realize he would move all over the field). That relegates your last 1st round draft pick to the bench or at least only playing 50% or less of the defensive snaps.

Maybe I'm just grumpy this morning, but how would spending a 2018 1st round pick on a SS and then spending big time FA $$ on the same position be a wise use of resources? And we can reasonably project from Burnett's reaction that neither Edmunds or Mathieu would like to spend 2019 being a positionless roving sub-pakage defender. So signing Mathieu would essentially mean you don't believe in your most recent prized draft pick...Edmunds had a rocky rookie year but not that rocky.

I say take the $$$ and spend it somewhere else. Would likely see more results. If you are going to spend 8 million + per year on a defender please get an outside CB!