Post signing cap sich

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/pittsburgh-steelers/


Is this accurate?
Looks to be
There may be an outlier but we're still 21 under?

So we have room for another ~12 mil contract?

Is that honey badger money?
Where should that go?

 

Don't forget new long-term deals for Fitzpatrick and/or Johnson.

 

I would make Johnson wait another year before he get the Big Bag. I need to see focus improvement.

 

LMAO focus improvement...okay

The number of players with more drops than DJ this year, 37:

Ja'Marr Chase* - 11
D.J. Moore - 10
Travis Kelce* - 10
Deebo Samuel*+ - 10
Darnell Mooney - 9
Alvin Kamara* - 9
Cooper Kupp*+ - 8
Keenan Allen* - 8
Jaylen Waddle - 8
CeeDee Lamb* - 8
A.J. Brown - 8
Laviska Shenault Jr. - 8
Tyreek Hill* - 7
Justin Jefferson* - 7
Marquise Brown - 7
Najee Harris* - 7
Austin Ekeler - 7
Robby Anderson - 7
Ty Johnson - 7
Chuba Hubbard - 7
Michael Pittman Jr. - 6
Christian Kirk - 6
Mike Williams - 6
Zach Ertz - 6
Leonard Fournette - 6
Kyle Pitts* - 6
D'Andre Swift - 6
Van Jefferson - 6
Jared Cook - 6
Evan Engram - 6
Antonio Gibson - 6
Saquon Barkley - 6
Ray-Ray McCloud - 6
Austin Hooper - 6
Dalvin Cook* - 6
Sammy Watkins - 6
Darius Slayton - 6
Diontae Johnson*- 5

The number of players with worse drop % than DJ, 100:

Alvin Kamara* - 13.4
Ty Johnson - 12.7
Dalvin Cook* - 12.2
Antonio Gibson - 11.5
Saquon Barkley - 10.5
Devin Singletary - 10
Kenneth Gainwell - 10
Jonathan Taylor*+ - 9.8
Austin Hooper - 9.8
Ray-Ray McCloud - 9.1
Ja'Marr Chase* - 8.6
Corey Davis - 8.5
Deebo Samuel*+ - 8.3
Evan Engram - 8.2
Laviska Shenault Jr. - 8
Gabriel Davis - 7.9
Josh Jacobs - 7.8
D'Andre Swift - 7.7
A.J. Brown - 7.6
Travis Kelce* - 7.5
Sterling Shepard - 7.5
Najee Harris* - 7.4
Austin Ekeler - 7.4
Michael Carter - 7.3
Tyler Johnson - 7.3
Jared Cook - 7.2
Leonard Fournette - 7.1
Anthony Firkser - 7
Jalen Reagor - 7
CeeDee Lamb* - 6.7
Van Jefferson - 6.7
Byron Pringle - 6.7
Dallas Goedert - 6.6
Tony Pollard - 6.5
Darnell Mooney - 6.4
Robby Anderson - 6.4
C.J. Uzomah - 6.3
D.J. Moore - 6.1
Laquon Treadwell - 5.9
Christian Kirk - 5.8
Zach Pascal - 5.8
Jaylen Waddle - 5.7
Chase Edmonds - 5.7
Javonte Williams - 5.7
Rob Gronkowski - 5.6
Dawson Knox - 5.6
Kyle Pitts* - 5.5
DeVante Parker - 5.5
Zach Ertz - 5.4
Cole Kmet - 5.4
Darren Waller - 5.4
A.J. Green - 5.4
Russell Gage - 5.3
Donovan Peoples-Jones - 5.2
Keenan Allen* - 5.1
Deonte Harris - 5.1
Albert Okwuegbunam - 5
Cedrick Wilson Jr. - 4.9
Marquise Brown - 4.8
Chase Claypool - 4.8
Brandon Aiyuk - 4.8
Myles Gaskin - 4.8
Gerald Everett - 4.8
Marquez Callaway - 4.8
Adam Humphries - 4.8
Michael Gallup - 4.8
Michael Pittman Jr. - 4.7
Mike Williams - 4.7
Aaron Jones - 4.6
Ezekiel Elliott - 4.6
Cole Beasley - 4.5
Tee Higgins - 4.5
Tyreek Hill* - 4.4
Devontae Booker - 4.4
Robert Woods - 4.3
Cooper Kupp*+ - 4.2
Justin Jefferson* - 4.2
Kalif Raymond - 4.2
Joe Mixon* - 4.2
Emmanuel Sanders - 4.2
Brandon Bolden - 4.1
Tre'Quan Smith - 4
Chris Godwin - 3.9
David Montgomery - 3.9
Dalton Schultz - 3.8
Terry McLaurin - 3.8
Ameer Abdullah - 3.8
David Njoku - 3.8
Dan Arnold - 3.8
Brandin Cooks - 3.7
Tyler Higbee - 3.5
Tim Patrick - 3.5
Nyheim Hines - 3.5
Kadarius Toney - 3.5
Nick Westbrook-Ikhine - 3.5
Tyler Conklin - 3.4
Mike Davis - 3.4
Antonio Brown - 3.2
D.K. Metcalf - 3.1
Courtland Sutton - 3.1
Diontae Johnson* - 3

The number of players with more catches than DJ, 4:

Cooper Kupp - 145
Davante Adams - 123
Tyreek Hill - 111
Justin Jefferson - 108
Diontae Johnson - 107

Moral of the story, pay the man.

 

And the rookie contracts.

 

Man i don't need stats, i watch the games. He is a good player but still makes too many mistakes in crucial times. And alot because of QB play, he was nowhere near as dominating as the top receivers.

And no way did he have only 5 drops.

 

Link

 

Right now Fitzpatrick is all Salary, being his option year. Fitzpatrick signing a long term deal should actually increase the available cap space for 2022.

 

Trubisky, Witherspoon and possibly one or two others are missing off that sheet as their contract details probably weren’t available or maybe there was a delay signing, I think Mitch only signed his deal yesterday? I’m not sure what the teams actual cap room is but it won’t be $21m once everyone is included

They can still do restructures with Cam and TJ if they want to make more moves

 

Good point. I have a bad habit of forgetting that part of giving players extensions/long-term deals.

 

I'd really like to see them get Minkah done soon. Having him locked up would be great and would make the cap situation more clear. They need a SS, too. Then you have to pay the draft picks and they like to leave a little for mid season injury replacement. There are possible restructures. The cap number is still wildly variable but they can make it all work, including a DJ extension if they want and a vet or two later for depth.

 

They need to lock up DJ unless the contract demands are out of bounds. They can lock up Minkah and lower the cap number this season as stated. They need a strong draft. We are lagging in the receiver department which Colbert is a master of, a strong safety (maybe the Badger gets no interest and they can get him for a one year deal) ILBer, the Tuitt mystery do they need a NT/DT so their still is work to be done.

Watt and Heyward are here for the long term so restructuring them is key. Not many others to ask Sutton maybe. We have a young team for sure. If Tuitt comes back PLEASE don't restructure him.

 

Well I guess ignoring stats allows you to imagine him having 50 drops. However, in reality he only had 5.

 

It's also important to remember the Rule of 56. Only the top 56 salaries are counted for the salary cap. When we signed Gunner at 2 years/$4 million, his two million salary bumps a lower salary (most likely $705k, minimum salary this year for a player with 0 years experience). So his effective cap hit is only 1.3 million.

 

Yes, those were all regular season only. I’m not discounting that he had a horrid playoff game. However, looking at his overall body of work he is tops in the league and has solved his drop issue. Sometimes players just have a bad game.

Remember too that this guy did it with mostly zero help. Claypool is no threat, JuJu was out, and I didn’t see Ray Ray drawing a lot of coverage.

 

DJ was much better in terms of drops last year apart from one or two bad games and I think there is a chance he gets even better. They should pay him if they can get a deal agreed imo.

The Christian Kirk deal has really screwed up the market, DJ is a much better player than Kirk who got over $18m a year from the Jags, that’s probably the baseline for DJ and his agents now.

 

We have roughly 12million left. Don’t forget we will need a couple million for draft picks and a couple million for in season moves(if necessary). Basically the team has about 5 million to use in free agency if they want. My guess is the only other move they will make between now and cutdowns is to sign edmunds.