The NFL has slow-walked their final calculation of the NFL’s 2021 salary cap. Thanks to decreased income from the pandemic, dramatically limited paying fans inside of stadiums meant the league took a hit from their expected revenue. The salary cap, tied to league earnings, was expected to dip dramatically from 2020. We usually see this number go up, typically bailing out Atlanta’s poorly planned contract structures.
Those lucrative television contracts which means you need half a dozen subscriptions to watch all NFL games has resulted in the cap bumping up over $10 million per year for the last seven years.