Roger Goodell and Kansas City Chiefs fan (Photos by Imagn-Images)
The NFL salary cap is set to increase even more than initially projected, a development that will make every owner, coach, player and fan happy.
The NFL salary cap for last season was $255.4 million, and the league continues to enjoy record revenue totals through television ratings, merchandise, and ticket sales. Well, it’s about to grow a lot higher in 2025.
According to a report from ESPN’s Dan Graziano, NFL teams were informed that the salary cap for 2025 will be between $277.5 million and $281.5 million. The league sent out a memo detailing that it’s not official yet and that it could change following discussions with the NFLPA.
Obviously, it’s hard to envision the players rejecting the league’s plan to increase the salary cap. The higher the salary cap, the more money teams will pay their players. And with the cap projected to increase by over $20 million, owners will have more money to spend than ever before.
Just take this short-and-sweet response from Dallas Cowboys superstar linebacker Micah Parsons about news of the planned increase for the NFL salary cap in 2025:
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NFL Salary Cap Continues To Increase Drastically
Roger Goodell and Patrick Mahomes (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
It’s astonishing just how much the NFL salary cap has grown in the past decade alone. Per Spotrac.com, the salary cap for the 2015 season was $143.28 million. And trust us, that was a really high number at the time.
And if you want to go back to 2011, after the lockout ended with a new CBA agreement, the salary cap was $120.375 million. In 2022, two years after the COVID-impacted season, the salary cap was $208.2 million.
The salary cap increase is good news for all 32 teams. This year, it especially helps cap-strapped teams such as the New Orleans Saints, Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys.
Roger Goodell Finally Breaks His Silence On Accusations That The NFL Refs Are Cheating & Rigging Games For The Kansas City Chiefs
Roger Goodell, NFL ref and Patrick Mahomes (Photos by Getty Images)
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has addressed the conspiracy theory that the officials have been cheating and rigging games for Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.
Roger Goodell took a series of questions from reporters to start off Super Bowl week in New Orleans, Louisiana. With the Chiefs set to face the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 59, the commissioner was asked about the rapidly growing conspiracy theory that the NFL refs are out to help the Chiefs win games.
Per Blair Kerkhoff of The Kansas City Star, Goodell called the theory “ridiculous”, even comparing it the one that he puts out a script for the entire NFL season.
“It reminds of the script, that I write a script for the entire season.” Goodell said. “It’s a ridiculous theory, for anyone who might take it seriously.”
The Chiefs have benefited from a long list of questionable, game-changing calls throughout the 2024 season. This included questionable unnecessary roughness and roughing the passer penalties against the Houston Texans on Mahomes in the Divisional Round.
Additionally, there was a questionable ruling that Josh Allen’s 4th-and-inches QB sneak in the fourth quarter (with the Buffalo Bills up one point) of the AFC Championship Game was short of the marker.
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Roger Goodell Has To Deal With The Conspiracy Theories Unless The NFL Does Something To Fix Officiating
Roger Goodell and the league office have had to deal with accusations that the refs are fixing games for the Chiefs. That’s not going to change as long as Kansas City is still on the right side of most controversial calls, and as long as the NFL continues to do nothing in fixing its officiating or replay review system.
