NFL salary cap question (1 Viewer)

[GroveDiesel]

I was perusing spotrac.com looking up how much cap space the Bills have left and was blown away by how much space some teams still have right now. For instance:

Browns: $56M

Colts: $49M

Niners: $36M

Texans: $29M

I thought the current CBA required teams to spend something like 90 or 95% of the cap each year with the average of all team spending required to hit a certain number as well.

How in the world are teams only at like 65-75% of the cap on the eve of the season start?

 

[Bronco Billy]

Teams have to spend a minimum of 89% of the cap over a running 4 year period.  So it is possible to be well under that percentage on any given single year.

 

[Hankmoody]

I'll add to this - cap spending isn't the same as cash.  Khalil Mack got a $34M signing bonus?  But that is spread out over 5 years, so his "cap hit" from that is only $7.5M but they wrote a check for $34M.  A whole bunch of a team's cash spending is allocated to the future with bonus pro-rates, always will be.