NFL Cap for 2026 Season

Holy ****. 300 mil? When the cap was first put in, in 1994, it was $34 million.

 

It's always good to have lots of cap space. The years of always seemingly having negative cap space are over!

It's one of the reasons why it's important to find out if you have a young quarterback that can play. That way the team has multiple years to try to contend with a cheap rookie contract on the quarterback and they can stack the rest of the roster with the money they save on the quarterback position.

 

I don’t get excited about the additional cap. Every team gets it so no advantage.

 

I think a lot of what they did last year was with an eye on this year

Before Omar they did not think that way

 

over the cap says we have 45,604,170 to work with at this point. nice starting spot. a few good cuts and we could be around the 100 mil range before this cap increase.

 

And somehow between that and 5 good picks in the draft we still won’t have a WR2

 

But the FA and Watt's contract are crippling the Steelers. They can't sign anyone. Oh my! LOL.

 

For FA it is almost totally dependent on other teams. With a significant raise in the cap league wide, most of those list of shiny free agents floating around are pute fantasy. More cap dollars means less movement as teams resign more of their own.

 

And what is left tends to be over priced

Best thing to do in FA is fill in some missing gaps so you don’t have to reach in the draft