Dan and Art Rooney along with Mark Hart, the Steelers' director of business, travel today to Dallas, where NFL owners meet to determine if they can come to an agreement on revenue sharing and thus ratify a tentative collective bargaining agreement extension with the players union.
In the meantime, the Steelers have released veteran safety Mike Logan and are under the $94.5 million salary cap that will go into effect 12:01 a.m. Thursday if no extension to the CBA is reached.
Logan had recent knee surgery after he was injured in the Super Bowl, so he will have injury protection because the Steelers released him before the start of the league season. He was scheduled to earn $1 million in salary in the final year of his contract.
The Steelers intend to re-sign Logan and fellow safety Russell Stuvaints, who also was released with an injury after he had ACL surgery. He was injured Nov. 20 in Baltimore.
Although the release of Stuvaints, quarterback Tommy Maddox and cornerback Willie Williams were made public last week, the Steelers made an official announcement of their action yesterday.