As I wrote earlier this morning, today begins the start of the 2019 new league year, the day in which free agents are officially permitted to sign with other teams, and the day in which those teams officially must be compliant with the salary cap. It marks the 25th year in which the salary cap has been in place, and its $188.2 million value this year is more than $150 million above where it originally started.
To celebrate, the Pittsburgh Steelers signed an unrestricted free agent to the largest contract in team history ever given to such a player, barring Joe Haden’s three-year, $27 million contract that he received in August of 2017 as a street free agent.