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The Steelers restructure Stephon Tuitt’s contract to create more salary cap space

The Pittsburgh Steelers are a team who has been wheeling and dealing throughout the offseason. Whether it was getting Ben Roethlisberger to sign a new contract, acquiring players like Trai Turner, Melvin Ingram and Joe Schobert or any number of other moves, they have been able to manipulate the decreased salary cap with the best of them.

With the team heading into the final two weeks of the NFL Preseason, they have created even more salary cap space by restructuring the contract of defensive end Stephon Tuitt.

This per Field Yates of ESPN:

The Steelers converted $7.