Sources: Salary cap up to $123M Updated: February 28, 2013, 8:06 PM ET ESPN.com news services 63 76 80 EMAIL PRINT The NFL salary cap for the 2013 season will rise to $123 million from $120.6 million in 2012, league sources told ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen. Teams were operating under previous estimates that the cap would be around $121 million per team. The increase is a result of greater-than-expected revenues last season -- primarily from NFL Properties -- and a jump in projected league revenues, according to the official. The league and the union work together to establish a cap number, based on parameters established under their collective bargaining agreement. The current 10-year CBA was signed in August 2011, ending the owners' lockout of the players. One of the main areas of contention during that labor dispute was how to divide the more than $9 billion in annual league revenues, a figure that will keep rising, particularly once the NFL's new television contracts kick in for the 2014 season. Those additional revenues will be reflected in the salary cap for 2015, which is expected to see a more significant increase than the roughly 2 percent uptick from 2012 to 2013. There was no salary cap in 2010, the final year of the old CBA. In 2011, the first year under the present deal, the figure was $120.375 million. Over the next four seasons, from 2013-16, each of the NFL's 32 clubs will be required to spend an average of at least 89 percent of the salary cap in contract dollars, while overall league spending must average 95 percent during that span. That sort of minimum cash spending did not exist under the old CBA. Another significant change under this agreement: Owners and players divide types of revenues at different rates. Players receive 55 percent of revenue from the league's national TV and other media deals, 45 percent of licensing and national sponsorship deals, including NFL Properties, and 40 percent of local club revenues. Information from ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen and The Associated Press was used in this report. Lets sign you know you
Use the extra $ to sign landry! If we trade Revis, draft wisely and get a serviceable QB in here, we could be decent.
I'd like to spend the money on Landry, but I'm guessing Revis will want a $2.6 million raise above his demands for 2014 and beyond and just chew up every penny of the increase.
Isnt the new tv deal going to double the cap? update* the new tv deal is over 50% more than the last deal, starting in 2014. Next years cap might be near 190 million, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204026804577098774037075832.html
The actual salary cap number is meaningless. Teams will max out a certain percentage of whatever the cap is to their best players. The cap could be $1 Million or $1 Billion and the teams would be exactly as they are now. Teams will spend 12% to 18% of their cap on a franchise QB. 5% to 8% of the cap on a few other star players (each). The rest of the players get 1% of the cap or less. Today Revis is demanding 12% of our cap ($15M). If the cap goes up to $190M, Revis will demand $23M. And some team will pay him that.
Pretty relevant discussion indeed. If you leave 5% for the 'freak accident' resource, you get 95%. Out of that, 10% goes to the QB - so the QB takes 9.5% of the full cap figure. If you break down the cap expenditure at even 50%, then offense will get 47.5% - and with 9.5% gone to QB, 38% will be distributed among the 10 starters AND ST members. (Offensive starters will get less than 4% on average. That means Holmes is grossly overpaid. He needs to go. Sadly, same with Mangold and Ferguson - they may be good, but they are not 10M good. All in all, you have about 20~25M to spend on OL. It would be understandable if both Mangold and Ferguson get somewhere in line of 7.5M or so - then the rest can be addressed at some 3M or so - which is rather reasonable.) In case of defense, things are not too much different. Now, since there is no position that instantly elevates the entire level of the defense, paying 10+M on any player is... not a good idea to say the very least. If I could have it my way, I'd be setting aside some 15% for the DL starters (5%x3) and 16~17% for the LBs total. (4%x4) That would leave some 15.5% - with that, I'd get the secondary players and ST players. No way I'd set aside 10+% for one CB.
we arent gonna get more then a 1st n a 3rd for him this year because of his injury. If he wasnt injured we would get two first round picks. Witch is why Revis will be a Jet for the next 5 years and we will end up trading Cromartie. Im telling you i think this is gonna happen. Revis is worth two first rounders and we wont get that with his circumstances from his acl. So why do it??? if we can only get one num 1 pick, it makes no sense for the team
Somebody please explain to me why Revis would want an extra 2.6 million, just because the cap was raised? That doesn't mean he's entitled to it. Where do some of you get these assumptions from? "Revis is unhappy with his contract." "Revis wants 16 million", "Revis wants to be the highest paid defensive player in the league", "Revis wants to be the highest paid player in the league as a whole". Guess how many of those statements are based on fact? NONE.
You keep saying this but maybe you've heard of a little paper called the NY Post? http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/jets/revis_wants_to_run_dash_N7JtAAmUowI7BwNng58MAP So yea - I'm going with the post instead of Barcs from TGG.
