Steelers Waive Quarterback Miller

In a cost-cutting move, the Pittsburgh Steelers released quarterback Jim Miller, their opening-day starter last year. He would have made nearly $1.9 million as a third-stringer behind Kordell Stewart and Mike Tomczak.

“It used to be the game was 80% football and 20% business, and now it seems like it’s 80% business and 20% football,” Miller said.

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Reggie Brooks, who had Tampa Bay’s only 100-yard rushing game last season, was among seven players cut by the Buccaneers. . . . Quarterback Kerwin Bell, 32, who waited more than eight years before taking his first NFL snap last season, was among seven players waived by the Indianapolis Colts. . . . Wide receiver Scott Miller, from El Toro and UCLA, was among those cut by the Miami Dolphins. . . . The Baltimore Ravens acquired offensive linemen Bernard Dafney from Pittsburgh and Ben Cavil from Philadelphia for two seventh-round draft picks. Bam Morris, who will serve a four-game substance abuse suspension, was put on the inactivate list. . . . Defensive tackle Reuben Davis was lost for the season when the San Diego Chargers put him on injured reserve because of a torn Achilles’ tendon.

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Byron Chamberlain Denver Bronco tight end was arrested on investigation of third-degree assault on his wife and released on $1,750 bond.