Salary Cap could be around $180-185 mill, per reports

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(02-04-2021, 01:38 PM)J24 Wrote: I'll be shocked if the players association agrees to anything less than 198.
New TV Money + the owners pushing for a 17th game will make it hard to convince the players to take a massive pay cut.

(02-04-2021, 02:01 PM)Synric Wrote: They already agreed to a 175m bottom that happened before they started the season.

From my understanding, since NFLPA had already agreed to the cap being as low as $175 mill, they essentially signed off on whatever the NFL wants to put it at as long as it's at least $175 mill.
So if the owners want to set it to $180 mill, they can do that without needing a big negotiation with the NFLPA.

As such, the players may have to deal with contracts being lower for 2021, but likely to go (way) up again in 2022 and beyond.

If so, I would imagine players who get cut or are FAs may either have to take just a 1-year deal and then hit FA again in 2022 in hopes the cap is way bigger again, or they may accept a multi-year deal where the cap hit is lower in 2021 but will (greatly) increase in the following years to help compensate. Also, I would expect guaranteed money will be more important this year if the contracts are going to be smaller.