He is now under contract with the Steelers through 2016. After slapping a one-year franchise tag on free safety Justin Simmons in March, the Denver Broncos hope to reach a long-term contract … The Steelers had almost no choice but to restructure another contract. In the wake of a Week One injury debacle, tight end Heath Miller agreed to a restructured contract, as reported by Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Here is a before and after of the numbers. April 21, 2020 9:00 am . — Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 3, 2014. Had a cap number of $9.5M, this will lower it.

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, starting tight end Health Miller has signed a contract extension that will keep him in Pittsburgh for the next six years. 2014 is the final year of Heath’s contract, so a traditional restructuring isn’t an option. As I said previously, it was indeed an extension that lowered his 2014 cap number. For those curious Miller converted $3 million of his salary into a prorated bonus, thus freeing up $1.5 million in cap room. Below are the new contract numbers for tight end Heath Miller. The base yearly numbers are correct and the signing bonus numbers are from estimations according to published reports. It was reported that the Steelers and Heath Miller agreed on contract rework earlier this week, but the details were not available. Jon Heath. The agreement calls for a $12.5 million signing bonus and has a total value of $35.3 million. The #Steelers have restructured TE Heath Miller’s deal to create cap space, I’m told. Yesterday it was reported that TE Heath Miller restructured his contract to help the injury riddled Steelers find the cap space to sign replacements for the three injured players.

Now it will fall to Ladarius Green to become Ben Roethlisberger’s go to man in the middle of the field. According to Ian Rapoport, the Steelers have reworked Heath Miller’s contract to create needed cap space for 2014. During the time he was in Pittsburgh, Heath Miller caught 72% of the passes that were targeted to him, second only to Le’Veon Bell.For comparison’s sake, Ladarius Green’s career targets to catches ratio is 63%.