The Pittsburgh Steelers didn’t have any players poached off their practice squad during the 2018 regular season but that doesn’t necessarily mean that other teams didn’t try. In fact, judging by a Monday morning adjustment that showed up for the Steelers on the NFLPA salary cap report, it’s a good bet that a team attempted to poach outside linebacker Keion Adams off the team’s practice squad during the final week of the regular season.
As first noticed Monday morning by Ian Whetstone on Twitter, the Steelers likely increased the final week salary of Adams from $7600 to $28,235, which would have been the minimum amount he could have earned by being on the team’s 53-man roster during the final week of the regular season.