Below are the new contract numbers for center Justin Hartwig who was signed to a three year contract extension earlier in the week. The base yearly numbers are correct and the signing bonus numbers are from estimations according to published reports. Based on the numbers below, the 2009 cap charge for Hartwig will be in the neighborhood of $2,225,000.00 or so. There are seems to be a few roster bonuses included as well that are unreported.

Justin Hartwig
2009 1600000.00
2010 2080000.00
2011 2170000.00
2012 2000000.00
Signing Bonus 2100000.00

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Below are the new contract numbers for defensive end Brett Keisel. The base yearly numbers are correct and the signing bonus numbers are from estimations according to published reports. Based on the numbers below, the 2009 cap charge for Keisel will be in the neighborhood of $3,225,000.00.

Brett Keisel
2009 2250000.00
2010 2925000.00
2011 3025000.00
2012 2825000.00
2013 2825000.00
Signing Bonus 5000000.00

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Below are the new contract numbers for tight end Heath Miller. The base yearly numbers are correct and the signing bonus numbers are from estimations according to published reports. Based on the numbers below, the 2009 cap charge for Miller will be in the neighborhood of $3,960,000.00. This puts the Steelers 2009 salary cap total at about $121,541,597.00 or about 5.5 million dollars under the cap. edited: I accidentally broke the signing bonus down by 6 years instead of 5 per the NFL salary cap rules. My apologies.

Heath Miller
2009 1460000.00
2010 2498000.00
2011 3386000.00
2012 4274000.00
2013 5162000.00
2014 6020000.00
Signing Bonus 12500000.00

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Below are the contract numbers for 1st round pick Ziggy Hood and 3rd round pick Kraig Urbik. The base yearly numbers are correct and the signing bonus numbers are from estimations according to published reports. I have also updated the Steelers salary cap page. This includes the guesstimate on the new Heath Miller contract as base numbers have not been released yet.

Ziggy Hood
2009 1100000.00
2010 395000.00
2011 600000.00
2012 600000.00
2013 660000.00
Signing Bonus 6,000,000.00

Kraig Urbik
2009 310000.00
2010 395000.00
2011 480000.00
Signing Bonus 593,000.00

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Below are the base salaries for CB Joe Burnett, RB Frank Summers and CB Keenan Lewis as released today by the NFL. Burnett reportedly received a signing bonus of $116,000 and Summers received a $115,000 signing bonus. Lewis signing bonus is rumored to be in the same neighborhood.

Joe Burnett
2009 310000.00
2010 395000.00
2011 480000.00

Frank Summers
2009 310000.00
2010 395000.00
2011 480000.00

Keenan Lewis
2009 310000.00
2010 395000.00
2011 480000.00

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The NFLPA website is showing that Steelers cornerback Ike Taylor has restructured his contract to free up some cap room. The new base salary in 2009 for Taylor is $2,640,000.00 versus the previous amount of $3,500,000.00. Taylor signed a five-year, $23.75 million contract that included a $6.4 million signing bonus and $1.25 million in performance incentives in September of 2006. Taylor was set to count around $6,100,000.00 against the cap in 2009, so that number figures to be reduced now to around $5 million. The restructure likely included more guaranteed money on the back end as Taylor is likely not one to give money back to the team. More details will be released on this soon.

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Following the upcoming NFL draft the Steelers will begin the process of signing the draft picks. As those draft picks sign, the likelihood of their salary counting against the top 51 salaried players begins. At the current time, the Steelers are right up against the cap limit of $127,000,00.00, thus some players will need to be released that are currently in the top 51 salaries. Below are a few players I think will be released sometime in May.

LS Greg Warren - This grizzly veteran long snapper will save the Steelers around $650,000 in cap money and assuming Jared Retkofsky is fully recovered by mini camp time from his motorcycle accident injury, they will do Warren a favor by letting him find a new home early on.

TE Matt Spaeth - The Steelers hope to come out of the draft with a backup for Heath Miller and FB/TE Sean McHugh, Dezmond Sherrod and a undrafted to be named tight end will all be called upon to lighten the load. Spaeth is still a good player, but just an odd man out with a cap savings of around $460,000.

CB Fernando Bryant - Although he recently signed a one year deal, it means absolutely nothing if the Steelers come out of the draft with two cornerbacks. Bryant best years are behind him and a salary cap savings of $745,000 is too much to ignore on a cash strapped team.

The savings alone with those three players would be around $1.75 million dollars. Some other players that are close to making this list are OL Jeremy Parquet and DT Scott Paxson. Not saying they will be May casualties, but do not be shocked if they are.

Tackle Trai Essex today agreed to a two-year, $1.92 million dollar contract with a $500,000 dollar signing bonus. Below is a break down of the contract and the base salary for each year. This will make the cap charge in 2009 for Essex to be $870,000.00.

2009 - $620,000.00
2010 - $800,000.00
SBon - $500,000.00

Guard Chris Kemoeatu recently agreed to a five-year, $20 million dollar contract with a $4 million dollar signing bonus. Below is a break down of the contract and the base salary for each year. This will make the cap charge in 2009 for Kemoeatu to be $2,565,000.00.

2009 - $1,765,000.00
2010 - $2,369,000.00
2011 - $2,973,000.00
2012 - $3,577,000.00
2013 - $4,181,000.00
SBon - $4,000,000.00

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Tight end/fullback Sean McHugh recently agreed to a three-year, $2.57 million contract with a $390,000 signing bonus. Below is a break down of the contract and the base salary for each year. This will make the cap charge in 2009 for McHugh to be $750,000.00.

2009 - $620,000.00
2010 - $700,000.00
2011 - $860,000.00
SBon - $390,000.00

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