The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed three players from their 2026 NFL Draft class, the team announced Friday.
Kick returner/wide receiver Kaden Wetjen (fourth round), defensive end Gabriel Rubio (sixth round) and safety Robert Spears-Jennings (seventh round) signed four-year deals. Financial terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
The three are part of a 10-person draft class that is the Steelers’ largest since 2010.
The Steelers also announced they’d agreed to terms with six undrafted rookie free agents: defensive back Devan Boykin, linebacker Daylan Carnell, defensive end Kevin Jobity Jr., kicker Laith Marjan and tight ends Lake McRee and Chamon Metayer.
Wetjen (5-foot-9, 193 pounds) twice won the Jet Award at Iowa as the nation’s top return specialist. Last season, he returned one kickoff and three punts for touchdowns.
The son of a former Steelers draft pick, Rubio (6-5, 321) made 37 tackles over the past two seasons at Notre Dame. An arm injury cut short his senior season.
Spears-Jennings (6-1, 205) played in 47 games over four seasons at Oklahoma with 25 starts. He made 178 career tackles and ran the second-fastest time among safeties at the NFL Combine (4.32 seconds).
The Steelers drafted Wetjen at pick 121 overall and Rubio was 210. Spears-Jennings, the first of the Steelers’ two seventh-rounders, was taken at 224.