Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an article today reporting that the Pittsburgh Steelers will be going with Byron Leftwich as their backup QB and keeping Dennis Dixon for their #3 while placing Charile Back on IR with a possibility of using a procedural injury settlement in which he would be available to them if needed later.
Batch has about 4 weeks left of recovery time left and will be healthy enough to begin playing again at that time; however, if they place him on injured reserve, his season would end regardless of whether or not he is healthy enough to play and would have to pay him his full salary of $1,355.000. With having the choice to use a procedural injury settlement, the Steelers could release him and have him available to them in the second half of the season with only having to pay him a part of that salary; however, as a free agent, he could also sign with another team during that time and only be available to the Steelers after mid-season if he didn't sign with another team.
Batch will be a free agent after this year.
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