{"id":727286,"date":"2026-02-03T22:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/727286\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:29:14","slug":"all-32-teams-including-the-panthers-ranked-by-projected-2026-salary-cap-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/727286\/","title":{"rendered":"All 32 teams (including the Panthers) ranked by projected 2026 salary cap space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, the NFL reportedly notified<\/a> teams of yet another salary cap increase. And, as expected, business is booming.<\/p>\n

According to NFL Network insider Tom Pelissero, the league is projecting the new number to land between $301.2 million and $305.7 million. That would be quite a rise from this past season, where the cap was set at $279.2 million.<\/p>\n

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So, where do the Carolina Panthers<\/a>\u2014as well as the other 31 franchises\u2014queue up in projected salary cap space for this upcoming campaign?<\/p>\n

Here, courtesy of Over The Cap<\/a>, is the estimated cap space and rank for each team heading into Super Bowl weekend . . .<\/p>\n

Tennessee Titans: $104,769,062<\/p>\n

Las Vegas Raiders: $91,522,807<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Chargers: $88,677,941<\/p>\n

New York Jets: $83,569,717<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Rams: $48,214,355<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Steelers: $44,943,582<\/p>\n

New England Patriots: $42,735,263<\/p>\n

Arizona Cardinals: $42,187,426<\/p>\n

Indianapolis Colts: $35,598,489<\/p>\n

Atlanta Falcons: $27,999,824<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Eagles: $20,557,388<\/p>\n

Carolina Panthers: $14,437,004<\/p>\n

Dallas Cowboys: -$28,936,140<\/p>\n

Kansas City Chiefs: -$54,530,166<\/p>\n

Follow\u00a0@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Panthers Wire: NFL free agency: All 32 teams ranked by projected 2026 salary cap space<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, the NFL reportedly notified teams of yet another salary cap increase. And, as expected, business is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[390,254,117,53,235,260,2567,391,256,54,257,258,113,7,345,253,392,125,110,393,262,58,251,259,249,55,56,255,6,126,236,109,57,7238,252,261,250,394,3257,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-727286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-baltimore-ravens","11":"tag-buffalo-bills","12":"tag-carolina","13":"tag-carolina-panthers","14":"tag-carolinapanthers","15":"tag-chicago-bears","16":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","17":"tag-cleveland-browns","18":"tag-dallas-cowboys","19":"tag-denver-broncos","20":"tag-detroit-lions","21":"tag-football","22":"tag-green-bay-packers","23":"tag-houston-texans","24":"tag-indianapolis-colts","25":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","26":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","27":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","28":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","29":"tag-los-angeles-rams","30":"tag-miami-dolphins","31":"tag-minnesota-vikings","32":"tag-new-england-patriots","33":"tag-new-orleans-saints","34":"tag-new-york-giants","35":"tag-new-york-jets","36":"tag-nfl","37":"tag-nfl-network","38":"tag-panthers","39":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","40":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","41":"tag-salary-cap","42":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","43":"tag-seattle-seahawks","44":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","45":"tag-tennessee-titans","46":"tag-tom-pelissero","47":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727286","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=727286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}