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The NFL salary cap is expected to rise by $22 million to $26 million more than last season, the NFL informed teams Wednesday.
The rise is modest good news for teams tight against the salary cap, such as the Buffalo Bills. ESPN first reported the rise, and it was confirmed by the NFL Network.
The cap was $255.4 million per team for the 2024 season. The final figure for 2025 has yet to be established, but it will range from between $277.5 million and $281.5 million per club, the league told its teams.
The cap goes up every year because of increases in revenue, but this year鈥檚 rise is more than clubs were anticipating. The teams had been budgeting for a cap somewhere between $265 million and $275 million.
Bills general manager Brandon Beane.
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The news doesn鈥檛 make a significant change in the Bills鈥 offseason outlook or the planning for general manager Brandon Beane. The Bills stood $8 million over a cap of $279 million, according to the sports financial website Spotrac. That ranked 30th in the league in cap space. Teams don鈥檛 have to be under the cap until the start of the new league year March 12.
Just like last offseason, Beane will be using many different levers at his disposal to create cap space, including releasing players, contract extensions and the restructuring of contracts. Teams can build in 鈥渧oid years鈥 into contracts beyond the last year of the deal as a way of spreading out bonus money farther into the future for accounting purposes.
The quickest big cap savings before the new league year starts would be the release of defensive end Von Miller. If the Bills designate Miller as a post-June 1 cut under salary cap rules (which spreads out the cap hit over two years), they can drop his cap figure to $6.37 million and save $14.77 million on the cap for 2025. If they release him without the June 1 designation in March, it counts for $8.4 million in savings.
