Are you one of the many Pittsburgh Steelers fans who believes the team should trade wide receiver Antonio Brown before or during the 2015 NFL Draft now that he’s wanting a new contract? If so, let me show you what the end result of that would be from a salary cap perspective.
Assuming Brown was to be dealt prior to June 1, it would result in the Steelers incurring a dead money charge in 2015 of $9,662,500. Being as Brown is currently scheduled to count $9,787,500 against the Steelers 2015 salary cap, dealing the star pass catcher would only gain them $125,000 in cap space.