Antonio Brown has agreed to restructure his contract with the Steelers, according to his latest Instagram story. The Drew Rosenhaus client will have his 2018 salary fully guaranteed in a move that will give him additional security while freeing up some additional cap room for the team. 
Pittsburgh has created $9.7MM in cap space by reworking Brown’s deal, tweets Tom Pelissero of NFL.com. That means the Steelers converted Browns’s entire $6MM roster bonus and all but $915K of his 2018 base salary into a signing bonus.
Brown, the league’s most talented wide receiver, inked an extension with Pittsburgh in February of 2017. The four-year, $68MM extension made him the highest-paid receiver of all-time on a yearly basis with an average annual value of $17MM. Brown’s signing bonus and reduced 2017 salaries made up the only guaranteed portions of the pact, so the 29-year-old (30 in July) was amenable to having his 2018 pay locked down.
Brown was as fearsome as ever in 2017 as he caught 101 passes for a league-leading 1,533 yards with nine touchdowns. After yet another spectacular season, Brown earned his sixth career Pro Bowl selection and fourth consecutive First-Team All-Pro nod. In his Instagram video, Rosenhaus does a celebratory toast with Brown to celebrate his future first ballot Hall of Fame induction. You won’t find anyone who will argue with that.
The Steelers have one of the tightest cap situations in the NFL this offseason, but Brown’s restructure should help them in their quest to extend Le’Veon Bell and address other needs in free agency.
Good for him and the Steelers. Bell deserves 13-18 million a year (depending on guarantees)
Deserves?
Yeah, it means that based on his prior output and projected future contributions he is valued at $13-18MM per season. If you don’t know what the word deserves means then you definitely should spend less time on NFLTR and more time reading an English book.
that much for someone who has had as many suspensions as playoff wins and is injury prone? no RB is worth more than 10 mill per year( maybe 12 at most) in today’s NFL. He won’t get what he is looking for on open market, so if I Steelers I would let him walk. use that $ to keep building that young defense bc they will need to rely on it after Ben retires.
Explain how he’s injury prone, he’s only missed games do to injury 2 times I believe rookie year, and 2015. Suspended only once for weed which is completely dumb.
He’s not a running back that can catch he’s a wide receiver that can run the ball. You look at the top paid WR Brown, Hopkins, Landry, Green, Adams, Jones followed by Thomas and Bryant both at 14M I would think 14M is very fair indeed. No other running back no no other person on the planet can rush for 1200 plus yards and have 85 catches
suspended 2x 2015 for arrest with Blount. 2016 for missed drug tests
2013 -3 games missed
2014- wild card game missed
2015- torn mcl 10 games
2016- new England game…pretty much injured with groin.
David Johnson did the same thing minus 5 catches and gurley was better than him last year, had more receiving yds and tds with 21 less catches and out rushed him with 42 less carries.
Bell probably does deserve that kind of money. But will it help the Steelers win? Idk. If there is no money to fill other needs, then you can’t keep Bell at that price. The Steelers have offered him great money in the past and he’s declined. Even his mom wanted him to accept that deal. The team doesn’t revolve around Bell. If he wants to win he’d have taken the deal last year.
Le’Veon Bell is one of the best RB’s. But he is not worth 13-18 million… his stats are not consistent. He struggled the first 3 games of the season against mediocre teams. He is a versatile player but to me he is being selfish. He talks about wanting to be a Steeler for life well prove it. They have stuck by your thru suspensions and injuries. He might as well retire and focus on being a rapper seeing how he wants to post music videos of himself rapping about what he think he is worth