The Jets have reached out to the Steelers about trading for Le’Veon Bell, according to Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News. The Jets have become the first known team, but certainly not last, to inquire on the superstar running back. 
The Jets have yet to make a concrete offer for Bell, but they believe the Steelers are serious about moving him, Mehta hears. Bell is set to miss the third game of the season when the Steelers face the Bucs on Monday night, and with no end to his holdout in sight, the Steelers recently opened up the phone lines for trade discussion.
This offseason, the Steelers hit Bell with the franchise tag for the second straight year. He’s under contract for 2018 with his one-year, $14.54MM placeholder (or, rather, the prorated portion of that), but any team acquiring Bell will have to wait until the season is over before negotiating an extension with him. For that reason, Bell’s trade value is capped for Pittsburgh. Any team acquiring Bell will have to lock him up to a mammoth contract to keep him in the long run while having no assurances of that deal coming together.
The Steelers would likely receive a third-round compensatory pick in 2020 by keeping Bell and allowing him to leave as a free agent next offseason, but that’s not a guarantee due to the complex comp pick formula. Instead, the Steelers would prefer to net a 2019 third-round choice – or perhaps even settle for a ’19 fourth-round pick.
The Jets have not had a running back of Bell’s talent level in his prime since the days of Curtis Martin, so they’d surely love to add Bell for the right price.
Fool’s Gold.
He’ll get his huge guarantee then go soft. More worried about his music than the gridiron.
Disagree, he’s a stud and will be for a while
Until he gets suspended again.
Curtis would never have held out. He was a class act. All players should look up to him and Barry and t Davis as examples.
Because Bell wants what he has earned he isn’t a class act?
I think he’s referring to not honoring his current contract but I could be wrong.
He’s not under contract though. He hasn’t signed the tender so he is under no contractual obligation.
Shut up. Bell is a scumbag and thinks he should be paid for what he’s already done, rather than his career outlook going forward. No one will give him what he wants. He’s making a mistake by throwing this money away every week he doesn’t play.
Im a huge steeler fan and can respect guys like Bell and Earl Thomas’ stances.
The nfls cba is attrocious for the players.
Not blaming the prior nflpa, but its good these guys are putting their guarenteed money, or lack there of, to the forefront of the next cba.
So bell is to blame for the way the CBA was constructed years before he was in the league? So he has to make 1/10 of what he should have been making during his rookie deal and now that he wants his he’s the scumbag? That’s that just an ignorant point of view.
Should have? That’s a bit of a reach.
I’m wondering what round comp pick the Steelers will get when Bell leaves. They would probably ask for that and a conditional pick based on performance
The comp pick, if they get one, would be a 2020 3rd which equates to a 2019 4th basically. Not to mention the $$ to resign him as a consideration
That wouldn’t be a consideration. The acquiring team knows they are gonna have to put money into it. Bell will not be traded for a 4th.
He can walk, there is nothing keeping him to the team hed traded to. They cant negotiate until the season is over.
A 2020 3rd equates to a 3rd just a year later. That faulty logic of a pick a year later feeling like a pick a round later makes no sense.
Easy answer, they wont get a comp pick.. Theyre going to trade him for a 2nd or 3rd.. Yes a 4th is comparable, but theres also a supply and demand market with multiple teams interested.
Mehta is the king of fake news. Total idiot. Man has no integrity.
He always has the Jets “reaching out” to somebody with no details to support his fantasy.
Question: if a team trades a 3rd for him and let’s him walk, would they be eligible for a comp pick (perhaps at the same level)?
Nope
wait jets, dont do this. hear me out: i dont have bell on my fantasy team but i do have crowell. if you guys get bell then crowell will get less snaps and im gonna have to find a new RB2:(
in all seriousness, i think their RBs are fine. If they really want to improve, fix the o-line. i dont even think Bell will do well with that oline
Bye bye
Maybe trade him to a team that has a poorly rated offensive line so he can learn just how much the Steelers’ line contributed to his success?
Go Jets…Take a chance. He may love it here and we may love having him here. We certainly can afford him! If he turns Gang Greens season around and helps Darnold, it could work out perfectly!
Bell won’t be the same for another team! He had a pretty good offensive line in Pittsburgh! I don’t see the jets having a quality offensive line!