Jan. 29, 2026, 12:14 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
Where do the\u00a0Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a>\u00a0rank in salary cap space compared to the rest of the NFL heading into the 2026 offseason?<\/p>\n According to Over the Cap<\/a>, the Jaguars<\/a> are currently $21.99 million over the projected 2026 salary cap.<\/p>\n Contributing to the Jaguars’ cap situation is a heavy amount of dead salary cap<\/a> being carried on the 2026 books.<\/p>\n Now, don’t worry, there are ways for General Manager James Gladstone to create more room.<\/p>\n This can be accomplished by restructuring certain contracts, which pushes salary cap charges to future years, while freeing up space in the present.<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n A contract extension, depending on how it is structured, is another way to free up cap space in the current year.<\/p>\n Then, of course, there are veteran cuts. If a player’s cap hit is larger than the dead cap hit they leave behind, salary cap space can be created.<\/p>\n Any unused salary cap from the 2025 season can be rolled over into 2026 to help as well.<\/p>\n 2026 NFL salary cap rankingsTitans – $93.5MRaiders – $81.3MChargers – $80.5MSeahawks – $66.8MJets – $66.3MCommanders – $63.4MBengals – $46.9MSteelers – $37.6Rams<\/a>\u00a0– $37.3Patriots – $31.2MCardinals – $30.4MColts – $26.9M49ers – $23.3MBroncos – $20.4MFalcons – $17.4MBucs – $16.7MRavens – $13.8MEagles – $10.4MPanthers – $9.1MGiants – ($58,866)Packers<\/a>\u00a0– ($10.6M)Bills – ($13.96M)Texans<\/a>\u00a0– ($14.1M)Lions – ($16.7M)Bears – ($17.6M)Saints – ($21.6M)Jaguars<\/a>\u00a0– ($21.9M)Browns – ($23.9M)Dolphins – ($30.3M)Cowboys – ($39.4M)Vikings<\/a>\u00a0– ($48.9M)Chiefs – ($62.5M)<\/p>\n Salary cap figures courtesy of Over the Cap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 29, 2026, 12:14 p.m. ET Where do the\u00a0Jacksonville Jaguars\u00a0rank in salary cap space compared to the rest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7,212,125,2401,213,6,31186,95933,95882,95976,95953,95936,95924,95988,95896,95888,95895,95899,95902,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-715961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","13":"tag-jaguars","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","16":"tag-sstsnjaguars","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-taggreen-bay-packers","19":"tag-taghouston-texans","20":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","21":"tag-taglos-angeles-rams","22":"tag-tagminnesota-vikings","23":"tag-tagnational-sports","24":"tag-tagnfl","25":"tag-tagnfl-hub","26":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","27":"tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","28":"tag-tagsports-news","29":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115982866124085763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}