{"id":201315,"date":"2026-05-24T14:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201315\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T14:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:44:26","slug":"steelers-restructure-te-pat-freiermuths-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201315\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers restructure TE Pat Freiermuth\u2019s contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Steelers have freed up some cap space entering the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FarabaughFB\/status\/2058380354738598236\" rel=\"nofollow\">PennLive\u2019s Nick Farabaugh<\/a>, Pittsburgh has restructured tight end Pat Freiermuth\u2019s contract by converting some of his salary into a signing bonus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dHe\u2019s basically getting paid nearly $6M in a lump sum,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FarabaughFB\/status\/2058409607823872425\" rel=\"nofollow\">Farabaugh wrote in a reply on X<\/a>. \u201cIt just pushed his cap hit up in future years to give short-term relief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">NFL signing bonuses are prorated through future years of the contract, meaning that Freiermuth\u2019s $11.2 million cap hit in 2026 decreased by a few million, although his future cap hits \u2014 12.1 million and 10.5 million in 2027 and 2028, respectively \u2014 went up slightly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After signing quarterback Aaron Rodgers to a one-year deal with a $22.5 million cap hit in 2026, the Steelers had the second-least cap space in the NFL per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/pittsburgh-steelers\/cap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotrac<\/a> at just $3.12 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Restructuring Freiermuth likely isn\u2019t foreshadowing a big move from the Pittsburgh front office, but rather giving the team a bit more cap wiggle room heading into the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers have freed up some cap space entering the summer. According to a report from PennLive\u2019s Nick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,4853,89009],"class_list":["post-201315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-salary-cap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}