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a new contract Isaiah Buggs Pittsburgh Steelers Jersey , but it won’t be as easy as many think."Ben Roethlisberger’s extension became trickier with the passing of March 15 when he received the $5 million roster bonus outlined in his contract. The Pittsburgh Steelers like to use roster bonuses as they allow the team to restructure a player’s contract and push that roster bonus into future seasons. Such moves allow the team to create salary cap space. The future Hall of Fame quarterback is set to make $23.2 million in 2019, the last year of his contract. Of the $23.2 million, $6.2 million is in the form of prorated signing bonus money, the $5 million signing bonus and $1.03 million of his base salary cannot be shoved into future seasons.The Steelers are sitting with $3,137,799 according to the NFLPA public salary cap report. The team has offseason expenses that are not figured into the total, such as the incoming rookie class Isaiah Buggs Jersey 2019 , 52 and 53 player, and practice squad players. The current figure is in the neighborhood of the amount of carryover money the team likes to have heading into the season with. The team needs to free up cap space one way or another.Roethlisberger’s last contract extension yielded only $1 in cap savings with a massive $31 million signing bonus. The amount of cap savings that comes to fruition will depend on the amount of a signing bonus and the number of years the contract is extended.If the Steelers will see any meaningful savings by turning up to $11 million of Big Ben’s 2019 base salary into a signing bonus and handing out a bigger total signing bonus than he saw in 2015, the team will need to tack on more than just two years. The more years that get tacked on the more money could end up as dead cap space if he hangs up his cleats before completing the contract or his skill set declines far enough for the team to cut him.General manager Kevin Colbert and cap guru Omar Khan likely have a road map for the offseason planned out. Contracts they look to terminate (Morgan Burnett?), extend (Joe Haden, Javon Hargrave or Bud Dupree?), or even more players they plan on adding will all have an impact of how the duo think the structure of an extension should appear. Will they be able to get Roethlisberger and his agent Ryan Tollner to work within that structure? Is Big Ben serious about winning or being another quarterback to break the $30 million per season mark? Steelers fans will hope Roethlisberger takes a hometown discount even though he has never done so before. They may have left it to the last minute, but the NFL has finally taken action against Vontaze Burfict for his questionable play in his Week 6 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers last Sunday. For the 13th time in his career Cheap Isaiah Buggs Jersey , the Cincinnati Bengals linebacker has been disciplined by the league, this time hit with the largest fine he has ever received for one game without it also coming with a suspension.As you would expect, one of the obvious plays that drew the ire of the league was his hit on Antonio Brown in the third quarter.As well as his shot to the head of James Conner that ended with him being stiff-armed out of the way by the Steelers’ running back.Thanks to this latest punishment, Burfict has brought the total amount of money he has lost to fine or suspension to a staggering $4,158,408. His complete list of fines and suspensions so far based on data from Spotrac.com.2013 Week 3 - Fined a total of $31,000 for a hit in a defenseless receiver and intentionally striking an opponent in the groin against Green Bay Packers.2013 Week 6 - Fined $7 Morgan Burnett Jersey ,875 for a facemask on Fred Jackson in game against the Buffalo Bills2013 Week 8 - Fined $21,000 for spearing New York Jets wide receiver Stephen Hill.2014 Week 6 - Fined $25,000 for twisting the ankles of both Cam Newton and Greg Olsen in separate incidents in a game against the Carolina Panther.2015 Week 14 - Fined $69,454 for three separate incidents against the Steelers.2015 Week 17 - Fined $50,000 for a late hit on Baltimore Ravens tight end Maxx Williams.2015/16 AFC Wildcard - Suspended for three games for a hit on a defenseless receiver after hitting Antonio Brown in the head. Lost a total of $502,941 in salary.2016 Week 6 - Fined $75,000 for stepping on the leg of LeGarrett Blount in a game against the New England Patriots.2016 Week 11 - Fined $12 Mike Wagner Jersey ,153 for giving the middle finger to a Buffalo Bills fan.2017 Preseason Week 2 - Suspended for three games for a hit on a Anthony Sherman of the Kansas City Chiefs. Lost a total of $1,400,469 in salary.2017 Week 7 - Fined $12,154 for kicking Roosevelt Nix.2018 - Suspended four games for the use of performance enhancing drugs. Lost a total of $1,839,362 in salary.2018 Week 6 - Fined $112,000 for multiple plays that constituted unnecessary roughness in a game against the Steelers.As much as it would have made sense for the league to suspend the Bengals’ uncontrollable linebacker Mark Barron Jersey , the NFL has never been know to doing the right thing in a timely fashion. The size of this fine is more about him being a repeat offender than the severity of his crimes last Sunday and it can only be imagined what heights the next one will reach. With Cincinnati unlikely to do anything about him internally, it should be expected that Burfict will be in trouble for another questionable performances before the year is out.