{"id":717509,"date":"2026-01-30T21:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/717509\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T21:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:52:14","slug":"nfl-salary-cap-projection-over-300m-in-2026-dallas-cowboys-can-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/717509\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL salary cap projection over $300M in 2026, Dallas Cowboys can spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Open up the checkbooks, ladies and gentlemen. It was reported on Friday afternoon that the NFL salary cap for 2026 is projected to be north of $300M for the first time ever. To say this is significant is putting it mildly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As it has often been said for the last few years, the salary cap is rising at an exponential rate. This year\u2019s cap is projected to be ~$20M more than last year\u2019s, all of that television money has to go somewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At the moment the Dallas Cowboys are technically projected to not have any salary cap space as they are in the red, but we all know that a few restructures will take care of that nicely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dallas, and everyone to be clear, will easily be in a position to spend if they want to in free agency or to take care of a massive extension for someone like say George Pickens. Whether or not they do so is always the ultimate question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open up the checkbooks, ladies and gentlemen. It was reported on Friday afternoon that the NFL salary cap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,5355,2461,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-717509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallas-cowboys-free-agency","12":"tag-dallascowboys","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115986271434836296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717509","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=717509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}