NFL teams are “budgeting for a salary cap” in the $265M to $275M range for 2025 "without an official projection from the league office," according to sources. That would be an increase from the $255.4M-per-club cap this season -- a “relatively conservative projection” given the record $30.6M jump from 2023 to 2024 as “revenues spiked with new TV deals and diminished aftershocks from empty stadiums” during the pandemic. However, by how much the salary cap increases "may not be clear for months." Planning is “more difficult without the league projection." With the NFL's December meeting and labor seminar that kicks off Monday in Dallas, the league and NFLPA "agreed not to release projections after they met last week.” While national TV revenue “won't move from its projection, local revenue does," and locally, teams have been “overperforming recently” (NFL.com, 12/8).
Report: NFL teams budgeting for salary cap rise
