Jason Cole reports the salary cap is expected to go up between $4 and $12 million. Find out what that means for your Houston Texans.
Of course your favorite nonprofit has made bunches and bunches of money this year. As a result, the NFL salary cap is expected to be raised. The cap is calculated by splitting a league wide pot based on ticket sales, revenue from luxury suites, local and national broadcasting royalties, concessions, local advertising, stadium leasing, and merchandise, and then it is divided on a per player basis. After this some entry level accounting is done, and BAM, you get the salary cap.