With the regular season in the books, all NFL teams have declared their cap carryover for the 2025 league year. Unused cap space from the current campaign will roll over, a substantial element of many teams’ financial planning.
Last offseason saw a record-breaking jump in the salary cap ceiling (pushing the upper limit to $255.4MM). To no surprise, another spike is expected but a smaller year-to-year increase is likely to take place. It was learned last month that teams are preparing for the 2025 cap to check in at a figure between $265MM-$275MM.
As teams evaluate key roster-building decisions – including restructures and cuts aimed at manufacturing cap space – carryovers are crucial. It it still not known what exactly the cap ceiling will wind up as, but in the meantime every club’s space which has been rolled over will add a degree of clarity with respect to how their offseason will take shape. Several teams (including the top two on this year’s list) have made a concerted effort in recent years to carry unused space through the course of a campaign knowing a spike in cap charges for core players are forthcoming.
Courtesy of Over the Cap, here is the full breakdown of each team’s 2025 cap carryover amount:
- San Francisco 49ers: $50.01MM
- Cleveland Browns: $41.95MM
- New England Patriots: $34.86MM
- Las Vegas Raiders: $33.57MM
- Detroit Lions: $23.73MM
- Washington Commanders: $19.83MM
- Dallas Cowboys: $18.84MM
- Jacksonville Jaguars: $15.89MM
- Green Bay Packers: $15.11MM
- Tennessee Titans: $14.72MM
- Arizona Cardinals: $11.38MM
- Indianapolis Colts: $10.1MM
- Seattle Seahawks: $8.42MM
- Pittsburgh Steelers: $6.83MM
- Philadelphia Eagles: $6.81MM
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers: $6.63MM
- Atlanta Falcons: $6.07MM
- Minnesota Vikings: $5.94MM
- Cincinnati Bengals: $5.94MM
- Chicago Bears: $5.08MM
- Los Angeles Chargers: $4.89MM
- Houston Texans: $4.81MM
- Kansas City Chiefs: $3.15MM
- Miami Dolphins: $3MM
- New Orleans Saints: $2.93MM
- Los Angeles Rams: $2.75MM
- Baltimore Ravens: $2.14MM
- Denver Broncos: $1.91MM
- Buffalo Bills: $1.34MM
- New York Giants: $1.17MM
- Carolina Panthers: $490K
- New York Jets: $346K
To my thinking the teams that perform well should be rewarded with a larger cap share than teams that make no effort to improve but I doubt the league will ever see the value in offering incentives of that type.
Everyone should be the same, that’s fair. No one wants the NFL to turn into the train wreck that is the MLB.
NFL is in a much better place than the MLB. I don’t think there’s any NFL teams that really just try to earn those revenue checks and skirt by (A’s are a prime example). Like deepseamonster32 says below, teams are just incompetent rather than being truly penny pinching.
That doesnt make sense because a team can still put in everything to improve and still fail, and they should be punished by rewarding teams that are already doing well?
Unnecessary really. Teams that don’t try in a balanced league will be rewarded with a terrible record.
Everybody appears to be trying, some teams are just incompetent. Somebody has to lose.
Not all teams try and some clearly go into tank mode about midseason. Yes the Raiders, Giants and Patriots won meaningless games late in the season but that probably would not have happened had the upcoming draft had some top quality QB prospects available.
Deepseamonster,
Incompetent? Stop talking about my Chicago Bears like that!
Um, wouldn’t that make the delta between good teams and bad teams that much more visible? That’s not what the league wants (and makes the product that much harder to watch).
So, you would rather see the same teams keep winning over and over and over again?
This has nothing to do with records. This is all about cap manipulation. The 49ers have the most complete roster in the league when they are healthy and they have the most cap carryover. John Lynch is just doing what he can to keep the Niners in a good spot for future seasons.