Sources: Steelers unlikely to trade for TE Smith

The Steelers are not expected to commercialized for Dolphins choky extremity Jonnu Smith aft engaging successful talks with Miami but present volition big escaped cause Gabe Davis connected a sojourn this week successful their hunt for receiving help, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter connected Tuesday.

Davis is scheduled to question to Pittsburgh connected Wednesday to sojourn with the Steelers connected Thursday, the sources told Schefter. Davis had antecedently made escaped cause visits past period with the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers.

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. Smith was not contiguous for Miami's voluntary OTA practices past week.

Drew Rosenhaus, Smith's agent, said Sunday nighttime that his client's "first choice" is 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."

Rosenhaus added, "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. Davis is disposable aft being released this offseason by the Jaguars.

The Jaguars released Davis connected May 7, astir 14 months aft signing him to a three-year declaration worthy $39 million. Davis, 26, caught 20 passes for 239 yards and 2 touchdowns successful 10 games successful 2024 earlier suffering a torn meniscus successful his near genu and missing the remainder of the season. His mean of 12.7 yards per drawback was the lowest of his five-year career.

Davis had 163 catches for 2,730 yards and 27 touchdowns and averaged 16.7 yards per drawback successful 4 seasons with the Buffalo Bills earlier signing with the Jaguars.

ESPN's Marcel Louis-Jacques and Michael DiRocco contributed to this report.