Salary Cap at $182.5M, what will Steelers do now? / Only a 4th round comp pick / What to do at tight end

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🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Chris Carter, Pitt beat writer and NFL analyst for DKPittsburghSports.com, talks about the salary cap being set at $182.5M and what the Steelers can do with it. Then he'll talk about how they can use the 4th round comp pick received and what to do at tight end. Follow Chris Carter on Twitter: @CarterCritiques. Theme music is 'Soul Kick' by Ceddy P, and 'Too Easy' by Nerdboy. Both from their label Renaissance Music. Find more from their label here. Subscribe to DKPittsburghSports.com here. This show is part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are Locked-on Steelers, your daily Pittsburgh Steelers podcast, part of the Locked-on Steelers podcast.
0:25.5	I'm your host, Chris Carter,
0:26.6	bringing you your daily dose of all things on the Pittsburgh Steelers.
0:30.1	It is Thursday, March 11th.
0:32.9	Remember, you can always subscribe to this podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Radio.com.
0:39.0	Today, we've got a lot to talk about. The salary cap has been set for the 2021 season. I'll
0:43.8	give you all the details on that. And we've got compensatory picks. That's right,
0:47.9	compensatory picks. They are in for the Steelers. We'll see who they've got. And then finally,
0:53.3	a look at the Steelers' tight-end
0:55.2	situation, who they got, who they need to get, maybe in free agency, maybe in the draft,
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1:14.6	Let's get into it.
1:15.6	All right, so you got me running solo on the show today, but we've got a lot to talk about.
1:21.6	So no mail bag today, we're going to go straight through some serious topics that happen.
1:25.6	First and foremost, we finally know the salary cap.
1:28.8	And we were talking maybe it was going to be lower, maybe it was going to be higher.
1:31.8	We knew that the floor was at least 180 and not 175.
1:35.8	The official number is $182.5 million a year.
1:41.9	Now, to clarify what that means, the Steelers at the start of the day
1:46.3	would have been 5.3 million dollars under the cap according to those numbers but they
1:52.3	also restructured Derek Watts contract which means that they have 880,000 on top of
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