The Pittsburgh Steelers were forced to cut James Harrison yesterday. Just like last off-season and many before it the Steelers had to make a tough decision in terms of creating cap space. Harrison is nearly 35 and battled with back and knee injuries during the 2012 season. Even so, the Steelers were hoping to keep Harrison around for at least one more year, but the two sides could not come to an agreement on a pay cut.
Many fans wanted the Steelers to restructure Harrison’s deal, but doing that would have just put of the inevitable as well as pushed more money into the final two years of his deal. Basically a restructure would have put the Steelers in worse salary cap problems for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. Instead the Steelers decided to cut Harrison, which cleared cap space for the 2013 season and kept any dead money hits from being incurred over the next one or two years.
The only issue with cutting Harrison is that, like Joey Porter, (who was cut in 2007 and had his job given ov...
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March 10, 2013
