Levi Brown’s Contract Was Reworked Pre-Trade

The biggest concern about trading for Levi Brown was the considerable salary cap hit and likely “can kicking” to make room for his salary this year. Those concerns can be put to rest. Bob Labriola reports that Brown’s contract was reworked with the Cardinals before the trade. His contract will be for the veteran minimum, and will only count $840,000  $715,000 towards the 2013 Steelers salary cap, prorated across the next 13 weeks. A trade that drew negative criticism by the media this morning, should be drawing praise tonight.

Updated- By my calculations, the prorated portion of Brown’s salary is $546,765. Due to displacement, the Steelers available salary cap should only go down by $189,412, because of Green’s release yesterday.