Colbert Says Not Much Talking Between Steelers and Wallace

CBS Sports reports that the Steelers and WR Mike Wallace have not had much chatter about the ongoing situation regarding his holdout.

It’s been 10 days since Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert said that the organization would no longer actively negotiate with wide receiver Mike Wallace, suggesting that for talks to resume Wallace would first have to sign his restricted free-agent tender and report to training camp.

“I think once we made that decision [to cut off negotiations] we’re in a different mode and we would have to address any new negotiation if we get to that point,” Colbert said at the time. Well, the team’s first week in Latrobe is in the books and its first preseason game is Thursday in Philadelphia.

But still no Wallace, and it’s not clear when we’ll see him. During a radio appearance Monday, Colbert admitted that the two sides haven’t communicated recently. “Yeah there’s really no contact,” he said according to SportsRadioInterviews.com. “Mike knows where things stand. The next step for him really is to report and to sign his tender, and until that happens, there won’t be anything else. And if that happens, nobody knows where it will go from there. So that’s where it is and has been, and hopefully it comes to an end sooner rather than later because it will be good for us, but it will also be good for Mike.”