The New England Patriots traded safety Kyle Dugger to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Tuesday, but they will not entirely remove him from their pay roll. Besides his signing and offseason bonuses remaining on the team’s books, they will also pick up parts of Dugger’s remaining base salary for the 2025 NFL season.

According to a report by Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, New England is going to be “paying most of [the] $5.4 million that’s left of Kyle Dugger’s original base of $9.75 million” in order to complete the deal. Dugger’s per-game roster bonuses of upward to $530,000 are also affected by this.

The originally reported structure of the move was Dugger plus a 2026 seventh-round draft pick transferring from New England to Pittsburgh in return for a 2026 sixth-round selection. The salary and r

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