The team that once abhorred restructuring contracts has become one of the most notable at doing so.
For lack of a better cliche, the Steelers are kicking the can down the road again after they restructured the contracts of David DeCastro and Stephon Tuitt the past week. It created more than $13 million of salary cap space for this year, but that $13 million will eat into future years’ salary cap space.
They have done it for quite some time now after resisting a move that other teams embraced long before them. Dan Rooney bemoaned it years ago, calling it “cash over cap” because it meant teams actually doling out more money in one year than the salary cap number.