The Steelers have converted $5.195MM of defensive lineman Stephon Tuitt’s $6M base salary into a signing bonus, according to ESPN.com’s Field Yates (on Twitter). The move will create $3.9MM in desperately needed cap space for the Steelers. 
Heading into Tuesday, the Steelers had just $1.091MM in breathing room, the lowest in the NFL. Now that the Steelers have roughly $5MM in space, the Broncos (~$4.8MM) have the least amount of cap room in the league.
Tuitt, 26, registered 5.5 sacks and 45 total tackles in 14 games last season. A full-time starter since 2015, Tuitt has 20 sacks to his credit, but has yet to play a full 16-game slate since joining the first string.
Last year, Tuitt agreed to a similar contract adjustment in order to accommodate the Steelers.
That’ll free up some money for them to extend Haden.
For me it’s not really football season in Pittsburgh until Omar Khan starts restructuring some contracts.
I still have no idea how he does it, but I’m sure glad he works for our team!
Doesn’t help the $22 mil in dead cap space for trading Brown. Oh well, at least they got a couple first round picks for him….. oh wait
Yeah. The lack of cap space did prevent them from plugging their two biggest holes in free agency. They couldn’t sign a CB or MLB. Oh wait they did sign a CB and MLB in free agency. So the lack of space prevented nothing. And they pick 22m next year.