5:39PM Monday
March 4, 2013

The Steelers have restructured the contracts of Lawrence Timmons, Antonio Brown, Ben Roethlisberger and LaMarr Woodley in the last three days. Timmons' restructure saved the team $5 million against the cap in 2013. Brown and Roethlisberger's restructures saved the team a total of around $6 million dollars. There are also rumors that Woodley has already restructured his contract, but it hasn't been officially announced yet. Roethlisberger's restructure is the latest of the Steelers work to get under the cap before the March 13th deadline. The Steelers saved $3 million against the cap with Roethlisberger's restructure according to Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. They could have saved more, but it looks like they decided not to move as much money into the future as they could have. Roethlisberger's base salary for 2013 was set to be $11.6 million with a cap hit of $19.5 million. $4.5 million of his base will be converted into a signing bonus and his cap number will move to...