Just when we thought the Melvin Ingram trade couldn’t get any worse, it does.
According to the NFL transaction wire released Tuesday evening, the sixth-round pick the Steelers received in the trade is conditional. A conditional pick is performance-based, which could mean a number of things. It’s likely that Ingram will have to play a certain percentage of snaps or appear in a certain number of games — or that minimal sixth-round pick could turn into a seventh or even nothing.
On the other hand, if Ingram balls out and the Kansas City Chiefs win a Super Bowl, Pittsburgh could get a higher pick — but we know that’s not happening.
Unless an NFL insider leaks the terms of the deal, it could be months until we know exactly how little the Steelers got in return for a player they may regret ever trading.