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According to Albert Breer of NFL.com, Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will do the Tom Brady thing and help out the salary cap strapped team. A day after Brady renegotiated his deal to help New England gain substantial cap room to acquire key free agents, Pittsburgh is asking their signal caller to do the same. Breer…
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*** Discuss this article and more at our Pittsburgh Steelers forum *** LB James Harrison knows that if he’s going to be in black and gold in 2013, he will almost for sure have to take a pay cut to do it. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that Harrison is open to the idea to restructure…
Judging by the report by Brian McIntyre, Pittsburgh Steelers nose tackle Casey Hampton has taken a reduction in his 2012 base salary and eliminated his $ 1 million workout bonus. Hampton, who is headed into the final year of his three year contract, was scheduled to earn a $ 4.89 million base salary to go…
The Steelers continue to free up salary cap space by reworking contracts of current players, and the most recent is veteran nose tackle Casey “Big Snack” Hampton. According to a league source, the Steelers got a little further under the salary cap by restructuring the final year of nose tackle Casey Hampton’s three-year, $ 21…
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The Pittsburgh Steelers are facing some tough decisions as they work to get under the salary cap. On Tuesday, they reduced the amount they are over the cap to about $ 8 million after restructuring offensive tackle Willie Colon’s contract. According to our news partners at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the restructuring saves…
The Steelers have restructured the contract of right tackle Willie Colon, reports Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Signed to a five-year, $ 29 million contract last July, Colon was due a $ 4.5 million base salary with a cap number of $ 5.7 million in 2012. According to Bouchette, Colon’s base salary has been…
The Steelers removed $ 2.85 million off the salary cap by converting $ 3.8 million of Willie Colon’s salary for 2012 into a bonus. Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
If there was any doubt that the Steelers intended Willie Colon to rejoin them as their starting right tackle, the Steelers made their intentions clear today when they restructured his contract. Source: post-gazette.com – Steelers/NFL
As the Steelers deal with the practical consequences of a mismanaged cap situation, two of the team’s key players are next in line to “restructure” their contracts. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and linebacker James Harrison could join cornerback Ike Taylor and linebackers LaMarr Woodley and Lawrence Timmons in creating cap space……