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Steelers to Extend Chris Boswell Soon

Pittsburgh Steelers' special teams coordinator Danny Smith guaranteed a new deal.

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PITTSBURGH -- There was no hesitation in Pittsburgh Steelers special team coordinator Danny Smith's voice. Placekicker Chris Boswell, who currently holds the fourth-best field goal conversion percentage in NFL history, is in the last year of his contract and Smith wanted everyone to know, definitively and using few words, that the team intends on keeping one of the best kickers in football around.

"He'll get a new deal at some point," Smith told assembled media at mini camp. 

Boswell made 90% of his field goals and 93% of his extra points last season, a year in which he was the league's fifth-highest scoring player. 

The 32-year old Boswell is in his fourth year with the Steelers and stands to make $3.3 million from his base salary, $1.2 million in deferred signing bonus money and another half a million dollars that were restructured to kick in at the end of a four-year deal he signed in 2018. 

Right now, Boswell accounts for the sixth-highest cap hit of any kicker in the NFL. Baltimore's Justin Tucker, the league's highest-paid at the position, will make roughly $1 million more than Boswell does this season. 

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STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper. He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press. During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general. 

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