Exclusive; Steelers Urged to Cut Former Pro Bowler To Save Cap Space
Heading into the 2024 NFL offseason, the Pittsburgh Steelers are supposed to see a few major changes to their franchise.
The group needs another hostile organizer and could roll out different improvements to their training staff.
Pittsburgh could likewise utilize overhauls on their offensive line, at various defensive positions, and at quarterback.
Assuming that they will make these redesigns, they will require some cap space.
The team has a lot of choices for players they can slice to get that cap space and one of them could be a former Pro Bowler.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazzette’s Beam Fittipaldo accepts that wide receiver Allen Robinson ought to be one of those players that gets cut.
Robinson disheartened in his most memorable season with the Steelers and letting him go could open up a ton of room for those different moves the Steelers need to make.
A Bet That Didn’t Pay Off for Steelers
At the point when the Steelers exchanged for Robinson, they realized they were facing a challenge.
He could have been acquired for a low sum. They just traded seventh rounders with the Rams.
In any case, he actually conveyed a really strong agreement.
Robinson was going into only the second year of a 3-year, $46.5 million arrangement when he was obtained by the Steelers.
That was a quite large interest in a collector that hadn’t arrived at 500 yards starting around 2020.
It was a speculation that didn’t pay off for the Steelers.
Robinson made only 34 gets for 280 yards and didn’t score a score in 2023.
Presently he’s set to convey a cap hit of $11.9 million out of 2024.
That is a quite enormous responsibility for a beneficiary that couldn’t finish a lot of in his most memorable year with the team.
Fortunately, his contract is also simple to terminate.
The Steelers would free up $10 million in cap space if they let go of Robinson, whose dead cap hit for the upcoming season is only $1.9 million.
A move checks out for a group that would in any case be set at receiver even without Robinson.
Pittsburgh has a lot of talented pass catchers. Although the Steelers are best known for their defense, their ability to find talent at receiver has been just as impressive as their defense over the past few decades.
Starting around 1998, the team has drafted Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Santonio Holmes, Mike Wallace, Emmanuel Sanders, Antonio Brown, Juju Smith-Schuster, Diontae Johnson, and George Pickens.
That is a silly number of receiver with 1000-yard seasons to have been drafted by one establishment in 26 years and two of them are still at present on the program.
Johnson and Pickens would be a lot for most teams to make progress in the passing game.
Johnson has been a consistent producer over the course of his experience with the Steelers and Pickens just demonstrated he can be a star in the association with a 1140-yard season.
However, those two aren’t all the Steelers have getting passes.
They additionally have Pat Freiermuth, who had 738 yards in 2022.
Calvin Austin III gave the group 180 yards on only 35% of snaps in his most memorable completely solid season.
Darnell Washington, a third-round rookie, had only seven catches as a rookie, but he could be another contributor for Pittsburgh next season.
The Steelers have a lot of choices at recipient and might decide to utilize a late pick to get someone to play in the opening.
They’d be in an ideal situation utilizing the $10 million they’d save money on Robinson elsewhere on the list.
