The NFL salary cap will once again take a major leap. Recent projections had the cap falling somewhere between $166 million and $170 million, per former NFL agent and CBS Sports salary cap expert Joel Corry, and though the actual number has come in on the low end of that range, it is still a massive jump from last year’s cap number.
The league’s cap figure will be set at $167 million for the 2017 season, a league official told reporters on Wednesday, up from $155.27 million in 2016.
As reporter Neil Reynolds noted, this is the fourth consecutive season that the cap has jumped at least $10 million from where it sat the previous year.