The National Football League is preparing for the 2022 campaign, even though the 2021 regular season still has four weeks left to play. The first step for the league is to set the salary cap for the upcoming season, this to allow NFL teams to plan accordingly for the start of the new league year, which is also the start of free agency.
After the 2020 season the NFL was forced to do something they hadn’t done before, and that was drop their salary cap. Since being introduced this was the first time the cap dropped, and settled at $183 million dollars per club.