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The LA Rams finally have some semblance of a 2021 salary cap number to work with. Well, a better one at least. The NFL and NFLPA had previously agreed to set a minimum salary cap for the 2021 NFL season at $175 million. To understand why that was both necessary and significant, we need to take a bit of a detour. How is the NFL Salary cap calculated?
Well, thankfully, we did most of the heavy lifting on that topic in a previous article entitled LA Rams salary cap: The setting stage for 2021.