The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have somewhere between $66 million and $78 million in salary cap space, ranked fourth or third in the league. That’s according to Over The Cap and Spotrac, respectively, the two-pre-eminent websites tracking NFL teams’ cap space and spending.
The NFLPA today announced that the leaguewide salary cap has been set at $167 million. With the Bucs carrying over some five million of last year’s cap space, we can estimate their cap space pretty closely.
The difference between Over The Cap’s and Spotrac’s estimate is pretty significant, though it’s also easy to explain.