T.J. Watt on the pressing factor of living up to his megadeal: I’m built for this

Steelers pass rusher T.J. Watt held-in during instructional course. He rehearsed with his partners interestingly this season on Wednesday, a day prior to he marked a four-year expansion.

Watt could possibly have passed on Sunday’s down without another arrangement.

“I’m glad we didn’t get to that point,” Watt said Friday, by means of Brooke Pryor of ESPN.

Watt not just turned into the NFL’s most generously compensated cautious player with $112 million and a $35 million marking reward, however he constrained the Steelers to change how they work together. Pittsburgh completely ensured the initial three years of Watt’s arrangement, a first for the establishment.

So how does Watt satisfy the pressing factors of the exceptional agreement?

“Man, I’ve been dealing with pressure my whole life. I’m built for this,” Watt said. “Furthermore, I genuinely accept that nothing money related will transform me personally. The work that I put in won’t change. It will just develop.

“It’s my job to prove all these people that have put this amount of money to me and stood on the table to say they want me here, to prove them right. I know I can do it. I know exactly what it takes. I’ve been doing it my whole life. It’s just about continuing to do it and staying hungry. And I guarantee everybody here right now and everybody in this building, I am still hungry.”

Watt, 26, gotten support from his colleagues, including Ben Roethlisberger and Cam Heyward, while missing practice to say something. He liked their public calls for the board to pay Watt his value.

“When you go through something like this, and you’re trying to stand up for what you believe in and you’re doing it by yourself, having reassurance from the people that you care about their opinion the most means a lot,” Watt said. “There are definitely some moments through this whole process where you do feel like you’re almost by yourself, and that’s why it’s so important that those guys said those nice things.”

Watt made the All-Pro group every one of the beyond two seasons and was third in cautious player of the year casting a ballot in 2019 and second last season. He has 29.5 sacks the beyond two seasons, including a NFL-best 15 out of 2020, with 77 quarterback hits, 15 pass separations, 10 constrained mishandles and 23 handles for misfortune.