Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the NFL informed club officials on Tuesday that they are projecting the 2020 salary cap to be between $196.8 million to $201.2 million.
The 2019 salary cap was set at $188.2 million, so this would be an increase of 4.5 – 7 percent, depending on where the final number comes in.
The cap has gone up 65 percent dating back to 2011, which amounts to $76 million per team. The total projected player costs, including benefits, will be more than $7.7 billion in 2020 based on this projection.
The official salary cap won’t be in place until February/early March.
NFL teams are required to spend 89 percent of their cap and cash spending has to be 95 percent of the salary cap limit over a period of four years or the difference will go to the union, who would distribute the money between the players.
We’ll have more regarding the 2020 salary cap as the news is available.
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