With three weeks now left to go before the start of the 2021 NFL league year, its staring to look more and more like the leagues official salary cap number will come in below $185 million, which certainly wouldn’t be great news for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
According to multiple reports on Thursday, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith told NFL player agents during a videoconference earlier in the day that the union expects the 2021 salary cap to be pretty close to the new $180 million “floor” negotiated by the NFL and the NFLPA several weeks ago, and that the 2022 and 2023 caps might also be affected as well by the pandemic-related revenue losses that resulted in this year’s cap reduction.