The Pittsburgh Steelers lost a lot of prominent players, most of them starters, this offseason. Whether it was through free agency, retirement, or salary cap casualties, the collective drain of talent with Maurkice Pouncey, Matt Feiler, Alejandro Villanueva, James Conner, Vance McDonald, Bud Dupree, Steven Nelson, and Mike Hilton is significant, to say the least, the full toll of which will not be measured until the regular season starts.
One of the few prominent players that they were able to keep, on a one-year deal, was wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, with the substantial drop in the salary cap playing a double-edged sword in that regard.