Transition Tag for Jason Worilds Best of Bad Options for Cap-Strapped Steelers

February 11, 2015   ·   Gary Davenport   ·   Jump to comments

As the Pittsburgh Steelers look to defend their AFC North title in 2015, tough decisions face the team. Decisions born of one the worst salary-cap situations in the NFL.
Those decisions include what to do about outside linebacker Jason Worilds, who led the team with 7.5 sacks in 2014.
Worilds played 2014 under the transition tag, and while tagging the 26-year-old could be an expensive proposition for a team with not much wiggle room, sometimes you just have to make the best of a bad situation.
Gerry Dulac of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette tweeted Tuesday that the transition tag was still on the table with Worilds this year:
The tag, which would allow the Steelers to match any offers made to Worilds in free agency (but not entitle Pittsburgh to any compensation if they refuse), would pay him in the neighborhood of $11 million in 2015.
It's a lot of money to pay a five-year veteran who has yet to amass more than eight sacks in any one season, especially given t...

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