The Pittsburgh Steelers and rest of the NFL must reduce their rosters to 53 players by 4 PM/EST Tuesday, Aug. 27. This post will served as our Steelers’ cutdown tracker, keeping a running tabs of names waived and released by the team as they trim down to that magic number.
Keep in mind the NFL has changed its rules this year to allow two players to be placed on IR/designated to return without having to be placed on the initial 53-man roster. This will help avoid some of the initial roster messiness of rostering a player just to place him on IR so he can return later in the season.