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The Athletic's Mike DeFabo reported Omar Khan and the Pittsburgh Steelers released offensive tackle Calvin Anderson this weekend.
With the calendar changing to March, it’s officially time for NFL teams to cut salaries before the start of free agency. Those decisions are harder than it looks on paper because while cap savings are great, releases often result in dead cap charges. That’s not really the case, though, regarding the move the Pittsburgh Steelers made with offensive tackle Calvin Anderson.
The Athletic’s Mike DeFabo reported this weekend the Steelers plan to release Anderson. With the cut, the team will nearly save all of Anderson’s projected $2.415 million cap hit.
“The Steelers are planning to release OT Calvin Anderson, per source,” wrote DeFabo. “They’ll save $2M of his $2.415 cap hit in 2026.”
The Steelers will have just a $415,000 dead cap hit with the Anderson release. It doesn’t get much more efficient than that.
Anderson spent two seasons with the Steelers. He served as one of the team’s backup swing tackles.
In 2025, he appeared in nine contests, mostly playing on special teams. His season ended on December 10 when the team placed him on injured reserve with a knee ailment.
Anderson was a key loss at the time. Days after Thanksgiving, starting left tackle Broderick Jones also went on IR with a neck issue.
Because Anderson also suffered an injury, the Steelers eventually had to start undrafted tackle Dylan Cook on Aaron Rodgers’s blindside.
In two campaigns overall with the Steelers, Anderson lined up for 34 offensive snaps over 13 games.