According to Ian Rapoport, with no official projection for the 2025 salary cap scheduled to come from the NFL and NFLPA this year, teams are budgeting for the number to come in between $265 million and $275 million.
Last year the salary cap jumped a record $30.4 million with revenues from the NFL’s new media rights deals kicking in and fewer accounting debts from the 2020 pandemic to pay off.
Teams are taking a more conservative approach to projections this year, especially because the NFL and NFLPA decided not to release an initial projection at the December league meetings like they’ve done in the past.
Rapoport explains the cap will absolutely continue to grow, it’s just a question of how much. He adds last year’s explosion was fueled in significant part by the “media kicker” the league and NFLPA agreed to in the last CBA that could increase the players’ total share of revenue from 48 percent to a max of 48.8 percent.
Though the T.V. revenue growth will be more modest this year, Rapoport points out local revenue from attendance and sponsorships has been overperforming expectations in recent years and that will be a factor in projections that should be factored in by the middle of January.
He adds the NFL and NFLPA also deferred $9 million of possible growth from the cap last year, and will split that between 2025 and 2026 with a max of half being applied this offseason.
The NFL and NFLPA usually set a final number for the cap at the NFL scouting Combine in late February and early March, just a few weeks ahead of the start of the league year and free agency.
We’ll have more on the 2025 NFL salary cap as the news is available.
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