Reed’s agent says kicker wants to stay a Steeler

While Casey Hampton has been talked about more than enough already there’s also been talk about the future of kicker Jeff Reed. Today in the Post-Gazette, the agent for Reed says the kicker doesn’t want to leave the Steel City:

Agent Don Henderson said Steelers negotiator Omar Kahn called him Monday, apparently to begin negotiations on a new contract for placekicker Jeff Reed, who will become an unrestricted free agent March 5 without one. The news one day later that Sebastian Janikowski signed a four-year, $16 million deal with the Raiders that includes $9 million in guaranteed money could not have come at a better time for Reed. “Omar on Monday asked my opinion, and I said all I can tell you is what the stats tell me: that Jeff is the field-goal percentage leader in the NFL,” Henderson said. The Steelers offered a contract to Reed just before the 2009 season began that was rejected. “We tried to get something done before season and it just didn’t work out,” said Henderson, who said the amount of Janikowski’s new contract did not surprise him. “We want to be in Pittsburgh and they know we want to be there.”