NFL sets salary cap at $208.2 million per team for 2022 season

[Auggie]

The salary cap for the 2022 season has been set, and the number signifies a return to normalcy.

The NFL's salary cap has risen to $208.2 million per team for the 2022 season, NFL Network's Mike Garafolo reported Monday.

It's an increase of $25.7 million from last year's cap of $182.5 million and right on line with earlier projections from December. The large increase stems from a lowered 2021 cap due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced teams to get creative with contracts while many of last year's free agents accepted one-year deals with the hope of returning to an expanded cap ahead of 2022.

Until the pandemic, the NFL salary cap had seen steady annual increases of about $10-12 million per year. Now that the pandemic is in the rearview, teams will have more flexibility heading into the 2022 season and free agents will have the opportunity to earn bigger contracts.

https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-sets-salary-cap-at-208-2-million-per-team-for-2022-season

Teams over the NFL salary cap

New Orleans Saints: -$42.35 million
Green Bay Packers: -$29.79 million
Dallas Cowboys: -$21.16 million
Minnesota Vikings: -$14.72 million
Los Angeles Rams: -$13.17 million
Tennessee Titans: -$6.90 million
New York Giants: -$5.84 million
Kansas City Chiefs: -$4.45 million
Buffalo Bills: -$3.91 million

NFL close to salary cap

New England Patriots: $11.50 million
Baltimore Ravens: $9.79 million
Atlanta Falcons: $3.82 million
San Francisco 49ers: $2.95 million
Arizona Cardinals: $2.75 million

https://sportsnaut.com/nfl-salary-cap-2022-off-season/

[underpants]

1. All the teams under the cap have their QB too

of course we’ll see how this new guy in SF does and Atlanta is going to need a new QB soon but they are a mess anyway.

On edit - no wonder Sean Payton bailed on the Saints.

[keithbvadu2]

2. How WILL they get by on such a pittance?

[jimfields33]

4. They don't as many teams exceed the cap.

[Omnipresent]

5. The players won't have to worry too much.

The concussions take care of long term memory

[Auggie]

3. Jets have $44.73 million in cap space, plus 2 top ten picks and 10 overall ...

including four selections in the top 38.

The Green & White own the No. 4 overall pick, their own selection, and No. 10 overall, which they received from Seattle as part of the 2020 trade that sent S Jamal Adams to the 'Hawks.

In the second round, the team has the 35th and 38th overall selections, the first again their own choice in Round 2. and the second pick coming from Carolina in the trade package obtained for Sam Darnold. The four selections in the first 38 picks of the draft marks the franchise's third draft with four selections in the top 40 since 1970.

https://www.newyorkjets.com/news/jets-2022-nfl-draft-first-round-picks