
Featured Promo: Get any full-season NFL Premium Pass for 50% off and win big in 2023. More on the NFL's salary cap will be explained below. With players getting larger guarantees in their NFL contracts each year, we are beginning to see higher dead cap numbers than ever before. In previous years, it was always a "use it or lose it" type of system. Expect to see plenty of teams restructure current players' contracts or begin releasing them before March 15.īack in 2011, the new CBA (collective bargaining agreement) between the NFLPA and the NFL allowed teams to carry over unused cap space from one year to the next.

Right now, the salary cap is set at $224.8 million per team and nearly half the league is over the 2023 cap.

All teams have to be under the salary cap by March 15 once the official 2023 NFL league year begins. In the paragraphs below, I will explain why the salary cap is real but also how it has changed over the years to become the complicated beast that it appears to be on the outside.Īs we are now into the NFL offseason, free agency will officially begin next month and teams will be able to start signing players. I am writing this piece today to explore in depth that it isn't a myth. There's a common belief among many that the NFL salary cap isn't real and is just a myth.
