How much Cap room do we have?

Right now with contracts on the books, how much do we have?

How much do we get if we terminate players like Polamalu and such?

Is this another year of having no cap room? If so, we need new people negotiating contracts. Even though we won our division, a look around at our talent, especially on defense, does not look like a team that is maxed out on cap space.

 

http://www.steelersdepot.com/2014/1...es-2015-salary-cap-will-substantial-increase/

$8,580,000 'dead money' hit next season for friggin' Woodley.

 

how will extending Ben effect the cap? I'm guessing it might help in 2015, but hurt after that. Assuming, low base salary in '15 and large signing bonus spread out over 6 or 7 yrs.

 

i read somewhere we are 4 milion under and have 37 players under contract

 

That's why I think Polamalu, Keisel et al. are gone. We desperately need that cap money.

 

What I don't understand is why do they not pay the qb's the majority of their money in the early years of their contracts? Why does all the big money start hitting when the qb might not even be the player they were when they first signed the deal? Is it simply because they don't have the room at the time of the signing? Or is it because they are really just trying to keep from having to ultimately pay the guy all the money that was signed for? A lot of teams seem to run in to this exact same problem. I could probably think of 3 or 4 right off the top of my head.

 

But wouldn't cutting Worilds not free up a lot of space? Or not necessarily cutting him but just letting him walk. If he walks we owe him nothing right? I never try and crunch these numbers because they always just irritate me.

 

It's gonna be like Christmas morning when that's gone

 

Dumb question!!!!!!!! Does this "dead money" mean that this money is still "owed" to that player? I don't really get into the contract stuff!

 

Gotcha Thanx!

 

The Post Gazette said the cap could be around 143 million, high enough to extend Ben, Heyward.

 

yes was prior of all the signing and estimate cap of 140 .. here you have a good numbers
http://overthecap.com/salary-cap/pittsburgh-steelers/

 

Thanks for the replies!

Ugh I guess its frustrating that we were able to field teams from 2004-2010 that had considerable talent and "Star power", yet we are nearly maxed out now on cap and we have only a few talented players (or far less than we did before). I guess that's the byproduct of Super Bowls and success. Well that and a string of really poor contract extension decisions as of the last few years.

 

here what we can do to find money :
For this exercise, let’s do some quick math and find some salary cap room. It won’t be hard but in a few cases, it might be ruthless. We will use the figures provided by Overthecap.com, although they are not always 100 percent accurate.
First off, let’s clean up the Old Four on defense. James Harrison and Ike Taylor do not have 2015 contracts, so nothing needs to be done and there are no savings. Start with Troy Polamalu, who has two years left with a $6 million salary for 2015. Cut him before June 1 and you save $3,750,000 in cap space; after June 1 and it’s $6 million. I say wait until June.
Cut Brett Keisel now or later and save $1.5 million. Cut Cam Thomas, save $2 million. Cut Lance Moore, save $1.5 million.
There, we have created $11 million of space on the cap without much effort. Now it gets a little more difficult.
Cortez Allen is due a $3 million roster bonus on March 14, four days after free agency begins, to go with a rounded salary of $2.6 million. If they cut him in June, they save $5.6 million on their cap this year. I don’t think they’ll do it, but it has to be tempting for someone who looked as though the game were too big for him this season.
Do that, and we’re up to $16.6 million

 

Huh??? What for?

I assume all will get the lowest tender.

Signing Worilds is damned if you do, damned if you don't. I think I'd rather be damned if we don't. The rest should all be relatively easy signings if we want them back ... and in the case of Ike, I hope we don't.

 

Isn't it in baseball or basketball where teams can actually go over the cap but then have to pay like a fine or something for it? Is that sorta what that is when they borrow against the cap? Like a lighter version of it? I'm pretty sure there's some cap rule like that in one of the major sports. I heard some people talking about it on a sports show one night a few months ago.

 

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I think they can get a soda and a reg snickers bar... king size is out of the question!!! lol