[OC] The NFL Salary Cap has increased from $224.8 million in 2023 to $279.2 million in 2025, the largest 2-year increase in history.

Posted by frayedreality

8 comments

  1. The NFL smoothed the loss of revenue in 2020 across the next few seasons. This combined with the extra game (and TV deal increase) caused these massive cap spikes.

  2. In 2021, the NFL signed deals that doubled its revenue from television. Over 11 years, it’ll make $111 billion from tv contracts. That means each team gets over $320 million a year before they sell a ticket, beer or jersey.

  3. Source: nfl.com

    The NFL and NFLPA recently agreed to a 2025 salary cap of $279.2 million per team, which is the highest cap in NFL history. This is more than $100 million higher than the cap in 2018 ($177M) and almost $200 million more than what it was in 2005 (85.5$M).

    Last year saw the biggest cap increase ever, as it increased from $224.8 million in 2023 to $255.4 million in 2024. This year’s increase means the cap has gone up more than $53 million in the last 2 years.

    The only downtick in the salary cap in recent years was in 2021 due to Covid.

    This chart first appeared on my newsletter [The Bagel Report](https://thebagelreport.com) where I do other such charts on the business of sports.

  4. “With owners exiting the CBA in March 2012, the 20101 season had no salary cap”

    “Not so fast my friend”

    -John Mara

  5. By percentage increase, though? Doesn’t look like it from the naked eye.

  6. and the fans are the ones to pay for it all. No wonder tickets are hundreds of dollars and a hot dog is $50. We need to reduce revenue expectations so that being a fan becomes affordable again.

    The greed is out of control.

  7. This is neat. I’d also like to see how much of that cap is being used by the average QB per year.

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