NFL teams brace for tight budgets with likely salary cap cut

It’s too early to know where the NFL salary cap will end up in the range of $180 million to $198 million coming off a pandemic-dominated season that was completed on time but still cost the league billions of dollars in revenue. There’s a glimmer of good news for teams with the potential floor of the cap going up to $180 million. That’s after an initial agreement between the league and players that it wouldn’t be lower than $175 million. Still, a seven-year run of the salary cup going up at least $10 million per season has likely ended.