The Pittsburgh Steelers trimmed their roster down to 53 active players on Saturday and those cuts resulted in some more dead money being produced for 2020 and 2021.
In total, the Steelers cut five players on Saturday that will result in dead money being accumulated. These five players were veteran Daniel McCullers and rookies Antoine Brooks Jr., Calvin Taylor, Corliss Waitman and Trajan Bandy.
As for the Steelers cutting McCullers on Saturday, he was previously due a base salary in 2020 of $1.5 million. His contract termination results in a dead money charge in 2020 of $125,000.