Ben Roethlisberger was the latest to shuffle some money around on Thursday. The Steelers will save about $6 million off their salary cap with the Roethlisberger restructure, which converts salary into bonus money.
Teams like the Steelers convert a player salary into a signing bonus in order to spread out some cap pain to the future. That saves some cap space in the present. The Steelers are tight to the cap, so they are more active than most in moving money around.
source: NFL.com
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