The Steelers and captain Cameron Heyward reached agreement Saturday night on a revised deal that will add over $3 million in incentives to his contract this year and allows him to earn up to $18 million this season, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter. With the contract adjustments finalized, Heyward now will play Sunday vs. the Jets. Heyward was a brief hold-in late in training camp amid frustrations about the state of negotiations,
"I'm certainly expecting Cam to play," Tomlin said in his weekly news conference Tuesday. "Cam doesn't play a lot in team development over the last several years. My job is to get him in and out of Latrobe, and I've done my job. And so, there are no reservations about his participation or his readiness. I'm sure he's chopping at the bit."