For the second NFL offseason in a row, former Alabama All-American Mark Barron has been released in a salary-cap move.

On Monday afternoon, the Pittsburgh Steelers announced they had released Barron, linebacker Anthony Chickillo and wide receiver Johnny Holton.

Barron had a base salary of $4.5 million for the 2020 season in the second season of a two-year, $12 million contract. The linebacker would have received a $750,000 bonus on Friday had he been on the Steelers’ roster, so his release puts Pittsburgh another $5.25 million below the salary cap of $198.2 million for the 2020 season.

The Los Angeles Rams released Barron on March 8, 2019, one week before he would have collected a $3 million roster bonus. Barron’s five-year, $45 million contract had two seasons remaining when he was released. His 2019 salary would have been $5 million.

On March 17, 2019, Barron signed a two-year deal with Pittsburgh that included a $5.75 million signing bonus and a base salary of $1 million for the 2019 season.

During the 2019 season, Barron started nine of the 15 games that he played and was on the field for 69 percent of the Steelers’ defensive snaps. He recorded 82 tackles, three sacks and one interception for Pittsburgh in 2019.

At Alabama, Barron earned All-SEC recognition in 2009, 2010 and 2011 and All-American selection in 2011 as a safety.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers made Barron the seventh selection in the 2012 NFL Draft, and he had started the first 37 games of his pro career at strong safety when the Bucs traded him to the St. Louis Rams on Oct. 28, 2014.

When outside linebacker Alec Ogletree broke his leg in the fourth game of the 2015 season, the Rams used Barron to fill the vacancy, and he finished the season with 113 tackles.

The next season, playing outside linebacker from the start of the campaign, Barron made 117 tackles.

In 2017, Los Angeles shifted from a 4-3 defensive scheme to a 3-4 alignment under new defensive coordinator Wade Phillips. Barron moved to inside linebacker to accommodate the changes, and he started there for two seasons before being released.

During his NFL career, Barron has made 710 tackles, recorded 12 sacks, intercepted nine passes, broken up 42 passes, forced five fumbles and recovered four fumbles.

Before Alabama and the NFL, Barron was an All-State linebacker for St. Paul’s Episcopal in 2007, when the Mobile school posted a 14-1 record and won the AHSAA Class 5A championship. Barron also won the shot put and triple jump in 2007 and the discus, long jump, shot put and triple jump in 2008 at the AHSAA Class 5A outdoor championship meet.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @AMarkG1.

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