Source: Steelers renew talks with Fins TE Smith

The Pittsburgh Steelers renewed conversations Thursday with Miami Dolphins choky extremity Jonnu Smith, who is seeking a caller contract, a root told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

The improvement brings caller beingness to a imaginable commercialized betwixt the Steelers and Dolphins aft sources had told Schefter earlier Tuesday that a commercialized was not expected to beryllium completed.

Smith, 29, expressed involvement to the Dolphins successful reworking the two-year woody helium signed past offseason, which would wage him $4.8 cardinal successful 2025, sources told Schefter.

Drew Rosenhaus, Smith's agent, said Sunday nighttime that his client's "first choice" was to stay with the Dolphins.

"Here's what I volition accidental connected behalf of my client: Jonnu would decidedly similar to enactment successful Miami. That's his archetypal choice," Rosenhaus said successful his play quality connected WSVN-TV, according to the Miami Herald. "This is wherever helium lives successful the offseason. He had a record-breaking play past year. It was the champion play ever for a Miami Dolphin choky end. ... He broke the squad grounds for receptions, receiving yards and touchdowns for a choky extremity and was the team's azygous Pro Bowl player. He's an incredibly invaluable portion of this team. ... He went to assemblage astatine FIU. His imagination squad is the Dolphins.

"Hopefully, everything works retired wherever helium tin enactment successful Miami."

Smith acceptable a franchise grounds for receptions (88) and receiving yards (884) by a choky extremity past play en way to his archetypal vocation Pro Bowl selection. He led each Dolphins players successful receptions successful his archetypal twelvemonth with the squad and finished down lone Brock Bowers, Trey McBride and George Kittle leaguewide successful receiving yards by a choky end.

The Steelers' involvement successful Smith was rooted successful violative coordinator Arthur Smith's longstanding narration with the choky end. Arthur Smith was Jonnu Smith's choky ends manager and violative coordinator successful Tennessee, and Arthur Smith aboriginal traded for his erstwhile subordinate during his stint arsenic the Falcons' caput coach.

The Steelers are successful hunt for receiving assistance aft trading George Pickens to the Dallas Cowboys this offseason.

The Steelers, though, don't person a glaring request astatine choky end. They signed 2021 second-round prime Pat Freiermuth to a four-year, $48 cardinal hold past offseason and besides instrumentality 2023 third-round prime Darnell Washington and 2022 sixth-round choky end/fullback Connor Heyward. Pittsburgh signed erstwhile Chargers choky extremity Donald Parham Jr., who has 11 vocation touchdowns, earlier this offseason.

The Steelers carried 4 choky ends connected their 53-man roster past season. The lone departure from that radical was MyCole Pruitt, who wasn't re-signed aft initially joining the squad connected a one-year declaration past season.

ESPN's Marcel Louis-Jacques and Brooke Pryor contributed to this report.