NFL Teams 2025 Salary Cap Space

[jgboys1]

We have to sign Parsons and that is going to cost.

What worries me is the Commodes having all that space and not have to restructure anyone.
and they actually got a real good GM and HC.

And QB!

 

[gtb1943]

It isnt just the Cowboys...it's the way teams do business anymore.

We get cap space by signing Parsons long term.

he is still going to cost a lot more money per year than he does now

 

[gtb1943]

This is wrong and not accurate. Besides they have to creat cap space becuase the draft poole requires an about 15-22 million to sign.

no it does not cost that much. Even when we signed Zeke and the other high picks that year we did not spend half that much and the commodes are going to be drafting a lot lower.

 

[EST_1986]

The rest of the story....Dallas can make more than 80m in cap space with simple restructures....and about 120m if we restructure everyone. Cap Space is easy to make.

just no real football players want to be here and Jerry doesn't want to pay anyone that can help to be here so no point

 

[irishline]

I'm not sure why this keeps coming up when we all know the Cowboys could create $100M in salary cap if they wanted too.

40% of which would (will) be kicking most of Dak's $47 million base salary next season down the road again, further tying us to him and his decline longer than 2025 and 2026. Then next offseason we can do it again when his base is $40 million, and two more seasons after that when its $45 and $55 million. Fun times.

 

[Shannon1]

It amazes me we never have salary cap space . Jones Keep saying we cant push money foward it will catch up With with teams that do that . What hell ,we don’t and we still have no cap space .

 

[thunderpimp91]

It amazes me we never have salary cap space . Jones Keep saying we cant push money foward it will catch up With with teams that do that . What hell ,we don’t and we still have no cap space .

Typically pushing money into the future requires the team to pay cash to the player now. The Jones's don't seem to love spending money.

 

[JustChip]

Thay won't. They might touch some of it. It's my opinion that the huge cap hit was put now in order to get rid of it while they have the space.

Here are Dak's cap hits.

89.8m
67m
61m
71m

Think about it. They could have just switched year 1 with year 3. Instant 30M cap space right now. No need to restructure.

Except they can’t do it without Dak’s agreement which he and his agent will only do if monetarily incentivized.

 

[CowboyFrog]

Sure push it down the road in void years, nothing like have guys like Gallop still taking up cap dollars. After a few players are gone the numbers will get better. Heck who care if there’s 100 or so million in dead money 3 years down the road

to be fair that is how the top FO's do thier contracts...now lets not mistake this bunch for a top FO because well...

 

[Flamma]

Except they can’t do it without Dak’s agreement which he and his agent will only do if monetarily incentivized.

I have no idea as to whether or not they need his approval. That isn't the point. When they were structuring his contract, they could have switched year 1 with year 3. Instant 30M cap space without having to do anything. They're not going to restructure because they don't need all of that money.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

I have no idea as to whether or not they need his approval. That isn't the point. When they were structuring his contract, they could have switched year 1 with year 3. Instant 30M cap space without having to do anything. They're not going to restructure because they don't need all of that money.

There's a nugget suggesting they may resist any restructuring of Dak's contract........make it easier to get out of it within a couple of years.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Sure push it down the road in void years, nothing like have guys like Gallop still taking up cap dollars. After a few players are gone the numbers will get better. Heck who care if there’s 100 or so million in dead money 3 years down the road

You can't imagine what the salary cap is going to look like by then. Rumors are it is going to go up a lot. I mean A LOT.

 

[CowboyStar88]

Salary cap hell! Yeah baby! LFG! Woot woot!

Broke dick QB, No viable HC, strapped to the cap, no FA, probably will draft for special teams. What an awesome outlook to be a Cowboys fan.

Meanwhile, Wash, Philly and the Giants will actively try and get better. Oh and either Wash or Philly will be in the SB… Hahahaha Jerry I hate you.

 

[Clove]

If we suck, and still have no cap space, blame the people handing out salaries.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

he is still going to cost a lot more money per year than he does now

He will cost less this year. Of course down the road he will coast more. And his contract will be built around having the ability to restructure him and to get out of the deal after 2-3 years like everyone else does.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

just no real football players want to be here and Jerry doesn't want to pay anyone that can help to be here so no point

There are plenty of players that want to be here....just have to show them the money. Henry wanted to be here last year.

 

[IMGumby]

This is wrong and not accurate. Besides they have to create cap space because the draft pool requires an about 15-22 million to sign.

You are partly correct but each rookie will replace an existing player at the league minimum of $840,000 in the top 51 contracts per team. Since the Cowboys have 10 draft picks this is $8.4 million which is subtracted from the total rookie contracts that are already known due to the rookie cap. The actual cap space the Cowboys will need for rookies taken in the 2025 draft is less than $5M

 

[Brax]

You can't imagine what the salary cap is going to look like by then. Rumors are it is going to go up a lot. I mean A LOT.

That’s the hope, hope seems to be the way Dallas operates hope, funny isn’t it

 

[IMGumby]

Both Dak and CeeDee have 4 void years (2029 through 2032) on their contracts. Since the CBA only allows amortization of signing bonus for up to 5 years there is currently no amount against the cap in those years. I am assuming that both contracts allow conversion of base salary to signing bonus which would allow up to $46,495,000 of Daks base salary converted and divided up from 2025 to 2029. This would result in $37.2 M in additional cap space in 2025 at the cost of adding about $9.3M to cap charges in 2026 to 2029.

 

[doomsday9084]

I'm not sure why this keeps coming up when we all know the Cowboys could create $100M in salary cap if they wanted too.

The problem is that for the most part, that $100m is created by pushing salary to future years. As of right now, they have $81m in capspace for 2026 but that's without Micah Parsons, the 2025 or 2026 draft classes. If they push a lot of money from 2025 to 2026, they will be in terrible shape.

Any capspace created has to be for multi year deals if it is for free agency. When you look at it that way, the team really doesn't have that much money to play with.

I also believe that Zach Martin's cap hit goes up by $17m to $27m next year if he isn't re-signed.