The Pittsburgh Steelers trimmed their roster down to 53 active players Saturday afternoon and several of those players who were cut resulted in the team taking on dead money charges. Below is a recap of the dead money accumulated in both 2018 and 2019 as a result of those Saturday transactions.
Veteran quarterback Landry Jones was the most expensive player cut by the Steelers on Saturday when it comes to dead money costs. Jones was scheduled to earn a base salary in 2018 of $1.9 million and his outstanding bonus proration was $300,000, which now becomes a dead money charge in 2018.