With the NFL’s broadcasting rights fees skyrocketing in the near future, leading to a much higher salary cap down the road, maybe this season’s free agency frenzy won’t be as frenetic as years past.
Don’t bet on it.
Sure, the salary cap, pretty much stagnant for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact and now at $208.2 million, is headed upward — maybe into the stratosphere — in the next few years. Still, all of that extra money is, for now, make-believe bucks. So the spending spree we’ve seen every spring won’t likely be disappearing this time around.