On Monday, NFL.com writer Tom Blair went through an interesting exercise: building the best full 53-man NFL roster that would fit under the league’s 2025 salary cap, based on this season’s cap figure for each player.
He limited himself to 24 players on their rookie contracts: no more than four first-round picks, four second-round selections, four third-round picks and up to a dozen players taken in Rounds 4 through 7. Players set to play on fifth-year rookie options this season (and undrafted players) were not counted in this group.
Only two Kansas City Chiefs — including running back Isiah Pacheco, chosen as RB3 behind Saquon Barkley and Bucky Irving — made Blair’s All-Cap Team.