The Pittsburgh Steelers have done a good deal of work over the course of the past month—some of which has been done for them due to retirements—in order to become salary cap compliant. While there is still more work for them to do in the future, they have done enough for now to be ready for the start of the new league year.
One thing that they have so far been able to avoid—and this is increasingly looking like an exception when you take a glance at the recent transaction wires—has been the need to release anybody. Of course, they would have surely had to if they did not benefit from the retirements of tight end Vance McDonald and center Maurkice Pouncey, who themselves would have been prime candidates for release.