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Now that the Pittsburgh Steelers have left for Denver for their season opener, and no new contract for wide receiver Mike Wallace was reported to be on board, we can now take a firmer look at where the team sits from a salary cap standpoint headed into week 1 of the season. PFT reports on Saturday that the Steelers have $1.6 million in cap space. That closely resembles my updated numbers that I track that is based off a cap number of personnel team cap number of $121,195,000. That number is derived from the $120.6 million cap number plus the $500,000 plus that was rolled over from last season Read more [...]
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