CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Terrelle Pryor is drawing interest from his hometown Steelers, the Giants, 49ers, Titans and Eagles as the free agency two-day negotiating window opens on Tuesday at noon, league sources told cleveland.com.

There are likely other teams that will express interest too.

The Steelers are Pryor's hometown team, but they showed no interest in signing him last year after the Browns cut him and he was out of football for most of 2016. Pryor is also close with Steelers receiver Antonio Brown, who shares the same agent, Drew Rosenhaus.

Rosenhaus last week made Brown the highest-paid receiver in the NFL at $17 million a year. The problem with the Steelers is that they only have about $23 million in cap space and would be hard-pressed to pay him compared to the league-high $102 million for the Browns.

A source told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the Steelers aren't interested in Pryor, at least not at $10 million a year.

The 49ers released receiver Torrey Smith on Monday, which saves them about $9.475 on the cap and gives them a total of more than $100 million to make Pryor a big offer if they so choose.

During this two-day period, teams may "negotiate all aspects" of the contract with an agent but can't execute the deal until free agency officially opens Thursday at 4 p.m.

Over the next two days, Rosenhaus will know exactly what he can get for the 1,000-yard receiver on the open market, and then the Browns will have an opportunity to match or exceed the best deal.

Rosenhaus and Pryor also will weigh the offers to find the right opportunity for him.

The two sides are currently far apart, with Rosenhaus believing that Pryor will be paid like one of the top receivers in the NFL, sources say. Others in the top five include Cincinnati's A.J. Green at $15 million a year and Atlanta's Julio Jones at $14,250 per year.

The Browns last week opted not to franchise Pryor, which would've paid him $15.826 million for 2017. Browns head of football operations Sashi Brown said at the NFL Combine last week he knew that would put Pryor ''effectively in free agency'' and that he knew teams would start to reach out despite the fact they're not allowed to until tomorrow.

He also said Pryor "is a priority'' but "we won't be panicked if he's not on our roster.''

Translation: We're far apart on the numbers.

Brown added that he didn't feel pressured to get Pryor wrapped up to a long-term deal.

"We don't look at it that way, to be honest,'' Brown said. "We'd like to have Terrelle back and that's a priority for us. That said, we're not going to panic if he's not back, also. But he's a good player, works hard, we think he fits in our system, had a lot of success with our coaches, so we think this is a great place for him to continue his career.

"I appreciated his remarks with the press about wanting to stay in Cleveland, and then it's on us in this process here to try to make sure we can exhaust all options to make that happen.''

Browns coach Hue Jackson, who drafted Pryor in 2011 in Oakland, said he hopes he'll return.

"It's free agency, so they get to make a choice and a decision, too," Jackson said. "Hopefully, he'll make the right one and stay here with us."

He added, "Obviously Terrelle was a huge piece of what we did a year ago," Jackson said. "Obviously we're working through that. And it has to work both ways for all involved -- for him, for us and hopefully it will."

The thing working in Pryor's favor is that are very top few receivers set to hit free agency. Working to the Browns' advantage is that Pryor wants to play for Jackson and wants to be close to his toddler son, Terrelle Jr., who lives in Pittsburgh. The Steelers would also have an edge in that regard.

Pryor, who worked with six different quarterbacks last year, will also factor in starting quarterbacks when making his decision. But his first choice is still to remain in Cleveland despite the uncertainty at QB.