NFL teams have an idea of the salary cap they will work with in 2026. The league informed clubs on Friday that it is projecting a 2026 salary cap in the range of $301.2 million to $305.7 million per team, Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports. That would represent another significant jump from this year’s $279.2 million cap number, and nearly $100 million more than the $208.2 million cap in 2022. The cap was $34.6 million in 1994, the first year of the cap, and went over $100 million for the first time in 2006 at $102 million. The Titans, Raiders and Chargers are projected to have the most cap room this offseason.
I don’t see Tua being released. I don’t see anyone trading for him either, not with the contract he has. Sure, the bump in the cap will be a help, but we’re still going to be in cap hell until Tua is ultimately dealt with one way or the other.
I'm all for just completely bailing on being competitive in 2026 and eating all of the dead money immediately. Take the poison, accept that the team is going to be very bad, and then actually start over in 2027.
It is the ONLY way. We've done half measures for like a quarter of a century, trying to avoid the actual full rebuild. We need to just embrace it.
