Josh Norman just became a UFA

[Benton]

(04-21-2016, 12:18 AM)StoneTheCrow Wrote: Steelers are interested, per PFT. Of course.

(04-21-2016, 12:42 AM)leonardfan40 Wrote: spotrac.com currently shows the steelers with about $3.5 mil in cap space. They also will have to account for their draft picks which will eat up a chunk of that. If they are going to sign him they will have to make some BIG moves. If they want to further destroy their ability to sign players in the future to make a run at someone who could very easily bust then I say go for it. Couldn't really blame them because they have maybe 3 more good years at best before they need to go into complete rebuild mode. 

I will sleep easy, if they somehow sign him it will be a huge mistake, but 99.9% chance they don't (its not in their DNA to make these kind of moves). Probably only interested in him if he will play for $2 mil this year...

Pretty much this. Even if they got a guy or two to restructure, they'd still be off $8-10 million or so. They could pull off some kind of down the road guaranteed money, but that's going to catch up to you and the Steelers aren't typically a team that leverages several season just for one year of free agent success.

Brown and Bryant contracts are up in 2018, Bell's in 2017 along with DeCastro and Spaeth, and a handful of others. They could sign him along with draft picks this year, but you wouldn't be re-signing most of those guys..