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At the last count, the Pittsburgh Steelers had over $6.5 million in salary cap space available, but it appears that number will now be closer to $12 million as of Tuesday, if a report from Field Yates of ESPN is to be believed. Given the team normally likes to carry a cap surplus of around $3.5 million into a typical season, it has to be assumed that this decision has been made with the intention of extending the contract of an existing player on the roster or signing another free agent. Original set to have a cap hit of $12,465,250 in 2018, Heyward will now only cost the team $7,066,250 against the cap this year, but will have seen his cap charge increase by $2.695 million in each of the two remaining years of his deal.
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