[Pelissero] The NFL informed clubs today it is projecting a 2026 salary cap in the range of $301.2 million to $305.7 million per club, per source. That would represent another significant jump from this year’s $279.2 million cap number, and nearly $100M than the $208.2M cap in 2022.

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  3. I’m assuming this is good for us? Idk how much Cap we have rn, but if we can get Bo a weapon or two…

  6. People see these headlines every year and assume it means we are able to get more big free agents but all it does essentially is increase how much the average player is getting paid and still maintains the basic ratio of percentages positions get paid on the cap.

    The recent jump was that QBs went from ~$30-40 million in cap hits to ~$50 million+ per season in the last decade. All this does is jump that to eventually ~$60-70 million+ and likewise for other positions.

    Every team gets the same money to work with so nothing really changes.

  8. Net neutral for us, guys are just gonna get paid more money this cycle. We’re gonna see a bunch of “that’s Mozgov money!” Contracts.

    Edit to add: for any cap space and contract enthusiasts out there, this doesn’t change much for us if you looked at Spotrac for cap estimates. They already guessed the cap would be around 303m so we effectively still have 27m in space (currently 13th in the nfl).

  9. As far as I’m concerned there are three major needs for the Broncos:

    1. Between the tackles running back.
    2. Wideout that doesn’t douse their hands in lube before the games.
    3. Big boy at DT to plug up the holes in the run game.

    Hopefully we have the cap space to get two through FA and another we can get in the draft.

  10. The owners are crazy to pay the players this much more than they were 5 years ago

  14. For the record, that is around 6-10m more than OTC projected. But unless you completely let it spiral out of control (hello, Saints) the cap is more of a multi-year thing anyway and in most cases doesn’t prevent you from doing things anyway. The key questions are how much cash you have and how much you want to account for now v in the future.

  15. We can get one big player in FA, resign everyone we have, and we can sign all of our draft picks. It doesn’t really change much because now every position will just be worth more.

  17. For people saying it’s neutral, it’s not. The majority of in house signings are done. The majority of the defense is locked down for several years as are other positions. Because the broncos and front office got their deals done early and mid season they can now focus on free agents from other teams having more available salary cap available, where as other teams need to still sign their or try to retain their own players. Because other teams waited to sign their own players, they will pay more due to salary caps rising and threat of free agency. Where as broncos took care of business. This is only an advantage because of the way the broncos do their business.

  22. Can someone do the math for me. With Wilson’s cap falling off if that is the real number what are we working with pre-resignings

  26. I don’t understand. The quality of the games is way way down just from an excitement level but they keep making more and more money. I don’t get it.

  28. Does anyone know, do sites like OverTheCap account for the salary cap increasing when they project cap space? I think we have like $30M right now, does this mean we’re up to roughly $50M?

  31. This is around what we were already expecting meaning that the 30 million that people have been using is about what we have. 

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