The NFL and NFLPA have agreed to a salary cap for the 2025 season.
The NFL combine is rocking and rolling this week in Indianapolis, and while its primary focus is the players set to enter the 2025 NFL Draft, there is other league business being handled as well.
There are also a ton of rumors flying around, like the Dallas Cowboys may have called the Tennessee Titans to ask about the number one overall pick, in addition to league news, but league news is league news. And on Thursday big-time news dropped.
It was revealed that the 2025 NFL salary cap will be $279.2M.
NFL teams were informed today that the 2025 salary cap will be $279.2 million per club. pic.twitter.com/1jZowiUMOC
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) February 27, 2025
You can see how much the cap has gone up in every year of its existence and the league continues to see insane growth in this area. Last year the cap come in just north of $255M so if we approximate a bit we are talking about a jump of just about $25M which was 10% of it. That is unreal.
Outside of the the dip that the 2021 cap saw as a result of the pandemic, the cap is something that you can historically count on as rising, and in serious fashion. This is why many have argued that pushing money (relatively speaking here) down the road is not too significant of a problem as what seems like a lot now will be an even smaller percentage of a larger pie in the future.
At the moment of publishing, OverTheCap has the Cowboys with a little over $4M in salary cap space, but there are mechanisms like contract restructuring that can easily and quickly create some more. Dallas can restructure both Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb, and they can also land an extension with Micah Parsons.
Will the increase in cap space lead to more action in free agency from the Cowboys – selective aggression, so to speak?
