The Pittsburgh Steelers trimmed their 2024 roster down to 53 active players on Tuesday and those moves produced minimal dead money against the team’s salary cap.
The largest dead money charge of all the players cut on Tuesday belongs to WR Quez Watkins. Watkins will have a dead money charge of $167,500 for 2024, as that was the signing bonus given to him back when he signed his one-year, veteran benefit contract in early April. Watkins will not have any dead money associated with him in 2025.
As for the remaining dead money produced by the Steelers’ final roster trimming these last three days, those charges belong to three of the five undrafted free agents signed this year.