Ben Roethlisberger restructures contract

Ben Roethlisberger becomes the latest Steelers player to restructure his contract. Clears about $8 million under 2012 salary cap.
Ed Bouchette

 

Getting there. If restructuring Harrison can get us below the cap numbers, we'll have lots to work with once we start making cuts.

 

That should put us 4 mill under the cap we were four over with the colon deal.. Bring on harrison hampton ward and troy. If those four restructure their deals like rumors say then we are in great shape. Throw in kemo and foote/farrior and we will actually have money to spend.

 

Great news !

 

ward and hampton has to be cut

 

Colbert said earlier that Hampton will be a Steeler next year.

 

at 8 mil ?

 

8 is too much, Casey will be willing to restructure and/or take a cut.

 

Latest 2012 cap numbers that reflect Roethlisberger restructure here

 

Yay Ben! Now if the NFL would only announce what the cap will officially be...they should be close though.

 

thanks Ben just goes to show you that he is willing to do what is necessary to win

 

Yeah he is so mad about the arians thing that he took 8 mil less this year

 

It says at the very beginning that the date of that article is Sept 2011.

Nevermind, didnt see that at the bottom.

 

I'm confused about this. I thought players earn "game checks" after every game they are active. If restructuring moves base salary to up front bonus money, does that mean players don't even have to be active to get paid since they already received the bonus in advance? I'm not talking about Ben in particular since he would be active, but just a general question about bonus/upfront money.

 

They still earn game checks, just that the game checks are a lot smaller. Hell, if Harrison could get all of his pay in the form of a bonus, then he could get suspended more and it wouldn't cost him anything.

 

Another great job by the FO in finances!!Let's now put the final touches on this and have a great offseason.

 

It's a shell game!

 

I haven't been keeping up with cap info... Did Woodley restructure?

 

Yeah, he was the very first, I think. Or close to it.

I nominate truckin9999 as "Most Useful Poster" for this year's Postie Awards.

Antonio Brown's cap charge: $564,359. Think he'll restructure???
Holy moly, talk about value. Won't last much longer.

 

That is outstanding. When I lived in Miami, Dan Marino would never restructure his contract. Consequently he never had a quality defense, a quality running game, and never won a superbowl.

 

Thank You

 

And he's our MVP! Poor guy, after taxes & paying his agent, there can't be much left. Shouldn't he qualify for one of those performance bonuses handed out by the NFL to "underpaid" players?

 

and he still took that fan out for a week on his dime great guy

 

Yeah i like brown a lot and he is quickly becoming my favorite steeler. Loved the story of his bro getting in trouble and him making him go to pitt so he could keep an eye on him. Also he has one of the best work ethic in the nfl. Ive his work out is pretty much just like rices.