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(01-21-2021, 02:05 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: I thought the roll over and cap spend requirements went away with the new contract that was recently negotiated?

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28901832/nfl-cba-approved-players-get-new-deal-how-expanded-playoffs-schedule-work

To big to copy, but I did not see anything on the bolded items above. I will keep looking.

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/2021-salary-cap-drop/

Looks like both are still in place in new CBA completed in 2020


How does the salary cap work?

There is a lot of math that goes into calculating the salary cap. But when you boil it down it, is actually a reasonably simple process. The salary cap is set based on two elements.
Firstly, the leagues’ expected revenue in the upcoming season is calculated, with the previous season’s revenue against expected taken into account. In order to then derive the cap number, the percentage of that revenue that is dedicated to the players in the CBA is used. Over the course of the last CBA, the players have had anywhere between 47.5 and 48.5% of the revenue portioned to them. That revenue comes in two ways, the first is the salary cap and the second is in their benefits.
Therefore, to calculate the salary cap the following calculations are performed:

• Revenue calculations x CBA percentage = Players revenue share
• Player revenue share – projected benefits = The amount available for salaries
• The amount available for salaries/number of teams = Base salary cap per team
  

The final element of determining cap space comes in the form of adjustments. The biggest of these is the salary cap “rollover”. This “rollover” allows teams to bring their unused cap from the previous season into the current season. For 2020, the Indianapolis Colts led the league rolling over more than $41 million from 2019, with a total of seven teams rolling over more than $20 million. These numbers are then added to the base salary cap, $198 million in 2019, to give each team a final cap number.
Teams are limited from stockpiling huge cap numbers into one or two years by the NFL’s 89% rule. The 89% rule means that in any four-year period a team must spend more than 89% of its cap in “cash spending.” There are ways around this for teams, including paying players big upfront bonuses that count as a “cash spend” in that season while sharing the salary cap hit across the life of the contract.