Before any additional predictable expenses are considered, the Pittsburgh Steelers are currently projected to have in the ballpark of $29 million in salary cap space. That might sound like a lot, and it’s certainly nothing to sneeze at, but the value of a cap dollar lowers every year with rising salaries.
Still, that’s a far cry from where the Steelers were around this time last year, which was about $15 million or so over the cap, depending on where you want to pick up the timeline.
“Usually, instead of having to cut people or redo people just to create cap room to be competitive”, Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert told SiriusXM radio on Tuesday, comparing their current cap situation to those in years past, “we don’t have to start that way”.