NFL Teams 2025 Salary Cap Space

[CowboysLakerBamaFan]

Jerry's at the stage of life where his family should be taking his car keys and check book away from him, and giving him crossword puzzles to work on instead.

But he's in charge of our entire franchise

I'm worried Howie Roseman is going to pretend to be a deposed Nigerian Prince over the phone, and scam him out of a 40 or 50 million more cap space

 

[Coogiguy03]

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.

Could and will are two different things!!! It's a wait and see if they will kind of team

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Yeah not sure it matters, all they seem to sign is over the hill has beens

 

[CowboyoWales]

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.

It's easy to say 'create a $100m' in space when you dont have to: factor in the following years, the contracts to Micah and Tyler and the number of holes we have to fill. Throwing CAP to supplement what we've got is futile. You'd want to use that $100m scenario to COMPLETE A CHALLENGING TEAM.... not to facilitate a hopeful play-off birth.
We need to tear it down first, then re-build it, rather than this 'rinse and repeat' of annual relevance with the sights on squeezing into 7th seed of the play-offs.

 

[Brooksey]

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.

Signing Parsons will reduce our cap hit from 24M to about 10-15M.

We can convert salary into bonus for Dak and Lamb and open close to 75M without adding any years to their contracts

Washington is in a good place with Jayden rookie contract, Philly will be in cap hell again

 

[EST_1986]

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

yea im sure he would have loved to play for the league minimum contract Jerry had prepared for him

 

[Hadenough]

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!!!!

 

[CowboyoWales]

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 .

....we constantly restructure. For instance $40m of Dak's last contract was restructured, check out the 'Void Contracts' , Dlaw, Zack. What you did is miss that our roster spend for the 2023 was on the credit card.
One of the biggest problems moving forward, as @irishline mentioned about, the easiest way to free up CAP, but as Irish said it means we're stuck with Dak AND HE's NOT GETTING AN EXTENSION SO THE FULL RESTRUCTURE GETS CHARGED IN 4 YEARS = CAP HELL....all for trying to get to average with this present set up.

 

[CowboyoWales]

Signing Parsons will reduce our cap hit from 24M to about 10-15M.

We can convert salary into bonus for Dak and Lamb and open close to 75M without adding any years to their contracts

Washington is in a good place with Jayden rookie contract, Philly will be in cap hell again

We have the luxury to look at individual years (and not have to balance that check book), if you're making such suggestions you need to forecast next couple of years just to give an appreciation of the ramifications.
As for the Eag's, Roseman will not get into the 'Hell' as he's willing to trade veterans and he'll get out of it...by cutting or extended Hurts in 2026.... we don't have that luxury as Dak doesn't get a contract.

 

[John813]

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.

It's set to void after the start of the 2025 season. OTC speculated it was done to allow Dallas to make him a June 1st cut, spreading out the dead cap over 2 years and not 1. Retirement was on Martin's mind going back to last year. I don't think he's going to play again, therefore, a june 1st cut.

 

[thunderpimp91]

....we constantly restructure. For instance $40m of Dak's last contract was restructured, check out the 'Void Contracts' , Dlaw, Zack. What you did is miss that our roster spend for the 2023 was on the credit card.
One of the biggest problems moving forward, as @irishline mentioned about, the easiest way to free up CAP, but as Irish said it means we're stuck with Dak AND HE's NOT GETTING AN EXTENSION SO THE FULL RESTRUCTURE GETS CHARGED IN 4 YEARS = CAP HELL....all for trying to get to average with this present set up.

Yeah this is a good point that shouldnt be overlooked. Restructuring contracts is a major issue as to why the Cowboys have cap problems to begin with. The bigger issue is when they sign guys, who they extend, and how the structure of their contracts are set up. All teams make mistakes in this department, but it seems to be next level for the Cowboys, complicated by their inability to admit their mistakes and move on.

 

[CowboyoWales]

Yeah this is a good point that shouldnt be overlooked. Restructuring contracts is a major issue as to why the Cowboys have cap problems to begin with. The bigger issue is when they sign guys, who they extend, and how the structure of their contracts are set up. All teams make mistakes in this department, but it seems to be next level for the Cowboys, complicated by their inability to admit their mistakes and move on.

Yep and it's exacerbated as Jerry just can't trade, instead 'everyone gets a contract extension'.

 

[Brooksey]

We have the luxury to look at individual years (and not have to balance that check book), if you're making such suggestions you need to forecast next couple of years just to give an appreciation of the ramifications.
As for the Eag's, Roseman will not get into the 'Hell' as he's willing to trade veterans and he'll get out of it...by cutting or extended Hurts in 2026.... we don't have that luxury as Dak doesn't get a contract.

Roseman doesn't mind his record going up and down with the cap and making SB runs, Jerry prefers steady eddy one and done. That could change this year, our cap has never looked this good

 

[Sage3030]

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.

I believe that amount in year one is including his restructures from the last contract which have to go in the year it does. Would have been that much either way, minus a million or two, but nowhere near a $30 million difference.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

AND QB!!!!

That is the issue more than anything. They got a QB who as a rookie has lit it up, despite the fact that didn't have a great supporting cast coming in. Improve the OL and maybe the running game and they have a nice window for the next 3 years before Daniels get paid.

 

[Flamma]

I believe that amount in year one is including his restructures from the last contract which have to go in the year it does. Would have been that much either way, minus a million or two, but nowhere near a $30 million difference.

Whatever was owed in the last contract has to be included in the new contract. Where in the new contract is irrelevant. They gave him a new 4 year contract. They could pay the man what they owe him any way they choose. Which means his 2025 cap hit could have been 2M if they wanted to go that route. Just as long as the rest is in the next 3 years or void years that follow.

2025. - 89.8m
2026. - 67.6m
2027. - 61.6m
2028. -71.6m

Jerry created those numbers. He could have split it up any way he wanted to. The first year could have said 5m. He put it at 89m because he had the extra cap space to do it. He doesn't need the extra cap space for what he does in the off season. If he did, it wouldn't be at 89M!

 

[DallasDW00ds0n]

This roster will not be the same, those numbers don’t tell the whole story.

 

[Chuck 54]

The cap is now expected to be 275,000,000 next year. Growing like crazy.

 

[eromeopolk]

Commanders will be taking Command of the NFC Least.

 

[CowboyoWales]

The cap is now expected to be 275,000,000 next year. Growing like crazy.

Not for us using OTC as a reference. The problem with your position is that EVERY TEAM GETS IT and just leads to Free Agent Player inflation. The question is going to be, what's the plan for any $100m restructured CAP:
a) Spread the CAP fill the holes, WITH A lot of costly 2 year contract (with a view to win now (2025), or
b) one or two elite players (provided, AND ITS A BIG BUT, we can attract these players away from other teams with similar contracts) and then relying on the draft and JAGS?