The salary cap implications for the Steelers after Heath Miller's retirement

The 2016 season was set to be Miller’s final year under contract after he signed an extension in March of 2014. He was due to have a salary cap hit of $7,181,668 next season, a charge that would have been made up of a base salary of $4 million and a prorated bonus of $3,181,668.

By retiring, it now means the Steelers will have to account for all $3,181,668 of Miller’s prorated bonus as dead money against their salary cap in 2016. On a positive note they will also have an extra $4 million of cap space to play with they would not have been expecting.



http://steelerswire.usatoday.com/20...-the-steelers-after-heath-millers-retirement/

 

Who is the #1 rated TE in the '16 draft? Steelers may get better value drafting a TE in round 1 than a CB... since all of the blue-chip CBs will be off the board.

 

Hunter Henry TE Arkansas

 

Thanks. Steelers can get some good CBs in rounds 2-7. Henry looks like he'd be an awesome Steeler... it wouldn't offend me at all if they drafted this guy.

 

Watched him every week. Looked pretty good. Doubt he will be there when we pick though.

 

I already accounted for cutting Heath in my offseason salary cap thread.

Yay cap space