{"id":780442,"date":"2026-02-27T18:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/780442\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:46:21","slug":"2026-nfl-salary-cap-set-at-301-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/780442\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL salary cap set at $301.2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL teams were informed Friday that the league-wide salary cap for 2026 will rise to a record $301.2 million per club, according to NFL Vice President of Communications Brian McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>The new total marks a $22 million increase from 2025.<\/p>\n<p>For the Raiders, it opens the door to meaningful roster building. The team is projected to have over $87 million available in cap space, per <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/las-vegas-raiders\/cap\/_\/year\/2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spotrac.com<\/a>, which tracks estimates of each team&#8217;s cap space.<\/p>\n<p>The new league year, which also marks the start of free agency, begins March 11 at 1 p.m. PT. The Silver and Black have <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raiders.com\/news\/raiders-2026-free-agents-list-nfl-free-agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">24 pending free agents.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL teams were informed Friday that the league-wide salary cap for 2026 will rise to a record $301.2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,268,269,1744,393,2455,2454,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-780442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-home-centerpiece","10":"tag-home-latest-stories","11":"tag-las-vegas","12":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","13":"tag-lasvegas","14":"tag-lasvegasraiders","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116144085067511214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780442","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=780442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}