When it comes to the offseason, Pittsburgh Steelers fans find themselves in a familiar place, wondering what the team will do with respect to the salary cap not just to get into compliance, but to create some spending money.
As a team with perennial Super Bowl aspirations, the Steelers more than most often spend almost right up to their salary cap limit in an attempt to have the best available talent possible, which should hypothetically afford themselves their best chance to win the Super Bowl.
Pittsburgh had an uncharacteristically large amount of salary cap space heading into the 2017 offseason, and that money really seemed to be burning a hole in their pocket, which they attempted to throw at Dont’a Hightower.