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Pittsburgh Steelers retain long snapper Kameron Canaday
According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, the Pittsburgh Steelers retained long snapper, Kameron Canaday, Tuesday. He signed a two-year deal.
Canaday’s return brings stability to special teams, which is critical. The more chemistry between the kicker Chris Boswell and Canaday, the better.
Long snapper news! Kam Canaday is headed back to the #Steelers on a 2-year deal, source said.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 17, 2020
The Steelers are reportedly restructuring the contract of Chris Boswell.
Another #Steelers player agreed to restructure his contract to help team create cap space: K Chris Boswell, source said.
— Adam Caplan (@caplannfl) March 17, 2020
With salary cap in short supply, the Pittsburgh Steelers are making the rounds among the roster to try to get some contracts redone to free up some space. According to NFL reporter Adam Caplan, the next Steelers set to move money around is kicker Chris Boswell.
No details yet as to how much the move will free up for Boswell. Boswell signed a four-year extension with Pittsburgh and still has three years left. His current cap hit for 2020 is $3.575 million but Pittsburgh can move some base to bonus and help get this closer to the number they need to cover Bud Dupree’s franchise tag.
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Chris Boswell is our Steelers comeback player of the year.
When you think about a player making a comeback, you typically think of it in terms of an injury. But for the Pittsburgh Steelers, there was no player who made a bigger comeback from a miserable 2018 season like kicker Chris Boswell did.
In 2018, Boswell hit on only 65 percent of his field-goal tries. This was in comparison to hitting more than 90 percent of his kicks in two of his first three seasons. Boswell went from being the team’s most reliable scoring option to a complete liability.
But after going on IR at the end of last season, Boswell got right again. There was speculation he played through an injury but this was nothing Boswell or the team ever admitted to.
Boswell also hit all 28 of his extra-point tries in 2019. This is in comparison to missing five of 48 attempts in 2018. Those numbers alone illustrate just how bad the Steelers offense was this season but that’s a topic for another day.
If Boswell isn’t the best candidate for this award, who do you give it to?
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