$23,195,291. Let that number sink in. That is the number that I bloated the Pittsburgh Steelers cap up to for the 2020 season. Because of quirks in the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement, the Steelers cannot do business as usual with massive contract restructuring that has led to a precarious situation. How does this get solved?
Now there will be big choices which have to be made. Players will have to be jettisoned, business as usual will not be the norm, and contracts will have to be re-worked.
Players who have to go:
Mark Barron: $5,250,000 cap savings with $2,875,000 in dead cap space.