The Buffalo Bills are in serious cap trouble, so it helps a lot that the ceiling is higher than anticipated…
This offseason, the Buffalo Bills still have to deal with a terrible salary cap scenario, but at least it’s not as bad as most had anticipated.
The NFL revealed this week that the pay cap for the upcoming season will be far higher than anticipated, at little over $255 million.
The biggest annual rise in NFL history, that sum also exceeds the pay cap from the previous year by more than $30 million.
An raised salary cap can only be good news for the Bills, who are the team most in the red, having lost more than $41 million.
Bills general manager Brandon Beane told reporters at the NFL Scouting Combine that he was relieved that the cap was higher than expected.
Beane told reporters, “Getting under and getting our cap squared away is our first challenge.” “I was happy to see it at 255 instead of 245.”
In reality, we were being prudent and counting a little lower than what we had anticipated—the mid-240s.
I thought this is nice, maybe it will be 248 when I heard it was going to be closer to 250 to 240. appears at 255 and rescues you. Perhaps you won’t have to let go of or rearrange one guy as much.
Although the Bills still have a long way to go until they are cap-compliant, this revelation made their task considerably easier.
Naturally, being able to retain more players is extremely helpful, since Buffalo is looking to extend its Super Bowl window.
Nevertheless, Beane needs to exercise caution to avoid ending up in an even worse salary cap scenario in the future.
Beane stated, “You don’t want to just credit card everyone and just pile it up.” “You’re attempting to balance it because at some point it becomes due.
I don’t want to arrive in 2025 or 2026 and declare, “How are we even going to get into the season? We have $112 million to unload.”
