{"id":9103,"date":"2014-02-12T16:46:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T21:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9103"},"modified":"2014-02-12T16:46:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T21:46:32","slug":"steelers-expected-to-cut-levi-brown-restructure-and-terminate-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/12\/steelers-expected-to-cut-levi-brown-restructure-and-terminate-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers expected to cut Levi Brown, restructure and terminate others"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Currently the Pittsburgh Steelers are almost $10 million over the salary cap and\u00a0<\/span>G.M. Kevin Colbert told a handful of local reporters that the Steelers will employ a sweep of \u00a0\u201c<\/span>terminations, restructurings, and extensions<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One player the Steelers are expected to cut ties with offensive tackle Levi Brown.<\/p>\n

Brown, 29, would save the Steelers $6.25 million against the cap in 2014 if he was released. It’s only a mater of time before this happens as Brown’s play has made him expendable.<\/p>\n

The Steelers could could further lower their figure with cuts to safety Troy Polamalu and cornerback Ike Tayler. ($8.25 million and $7 million)<\/p>\n

Another option that has already been talked about is an extension for quarterback Ben Roethlisberger who is signed though 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Currently the Pittsburgh Steelers are almost $10 million over the salary cap and\u00a0G.M. Kevin Colbert told a handful of local reporters that the Steelers will employ a sweep of \u00a0\u201cterminations, restructurings, and extensions.\u201d\u00a0 One player the Steelers are expected to cut ties with offensive tackle Levi Brown. Brown, 29, would save the Steelers $6.25 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[650,216,68],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-levi-brown","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9103"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}