The Pittsburgh Steelers signed free agent Ok Matthew Wright to a one-year contract on Wednesday and as of Friday morning, we now know the monetary particulars associated to that deal.
As anticipated, Wright’s one-year contract with the Steelers is the minimal for a participant with three credited seasons. That base quantity is $1.055 million. Wright didn’t obtain a signing bonus as a part of the deal and thus there is no such thing as a assured cash within the contract.
With Wright’s 2024 wage cap cost set at $1.055 million, it enters the Steelers Rule of 51 quantity and displaced a participant’s wage of $985,000 within the course of. This leads to the Steelers utilizing $70,000 of the 2024 wage cap area to signal Wright.
After Wright’s signing, the Steelers at the moment are $12,005,998 underneath the wage cap with lower than two weeks remaining earlier than the beginning of the 2024 NFL Draft.
The Steelers signed Wright to assist with kicking duties all through the summer season. He would be the backup to veteran Ok Chris Boswell.
Wright has been a member of the Steelers a number of instances over the course of his profession along with his final stint coming in 2022, when he was requested to fill in for a number of video games for a then-injured Boswell.
Following the 2019 NFL Draft, Wright initially signed with the Steelers as an undrafted free agent out of Central Florida. Along with his a number of stints with the Steelers, Wright has additionally hung out with the Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, Carolina Panthers, San Francisco 49ers, Atlanta Falcons, New England Patriots, and Carolina Panthers.
For his NFL profession so far, Matthew Wright is 40 of 47 on area purpose makes an attempt and 35 of 37 on additional level tries. His profession lengthy is 59 yards, and he’s 6 of 9 on makes an attempt of fifty yards or longer.
