In the matter of a couple strokes of the pen, the Steelers freed up just over $13 million. And a couple of more could free up even more salary cap space.
They quietly reworked the deals of Stephon Tuitt and David DeCastro at some point last week to free up all of that cap space and quickly went to work with it, signing exclusive rights free agents Matt Feiler and B.J. Finney to one-year contracts and restricted free agent Roosevelt Nix to a four-year deal.
If they need more cap space -- which they will if they have plans to sign Le'Veon Bell or make any moves in the free agent market -- the next up for a possible restructure would be Antonio Brown.
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