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3 Steelers players who will not live up to their 2020 cap hits

The 2011 and the 2020 NFL Collective Bargaining Agreements put all teams on the same level playing field — what teams have done since then has been on them. Wasting salary cap dollars is as devastating as wasting top draft choices. Each can have an impact not only for individual years but years to come. The Pittsburgh Steelers were one of the top teams of the past decade in terms of not eating dead cap space until wideout Antonio Brown’s cheese slid off his cracker and the team ate over $21 million in dead cap space when he was traded to the Oakland Raiders.