The NFL’s salary cap is almost set for 2025.
On Wednesday, the NFL announced the range for their 2025 salary cap, and the Buffalo Bills and the rest of the teams should be pretty happy.
The league said the salary cap would be between $277.5 million and $281.5 million, up a considerable margin over the 2024 salary cap of $255.4 million. That means the cap will have increased by more than $53 million over the last two years.
Over the Cap had projected the salary cap to be $272.5 million with Spotrac had it at $275 million, so no matter which site you were using, NFL teams are going to have more cap space than we thought and that includes the Bills.
Per Spotrac, the Bills were going to be about $12 million over the cap. With this news, at worst the Bills will be $10 million over and at best they could be just $5.5 million over. One or two easy moves, and they’re cap compliant with more moves ready to roll before they even look at players to release.
This is what general manager Brandon Beane has to say in January following the Bills’ season about the cap:
“We won’t be in as deep of a cap hole [in 2025],” Beane said. “Now, we also had some numbers that were easier to move off of last year…I don’t think we have as many of those options, but we’re okay. We also have to remember we’ve got guys that are coming up on extensions…I don’t expect us to be, as I said here a year ago, big spenders in free agency or anything like that.”
The Bills only have a few significant free agents this offseason, but next offseason has a slew of players they will need to re-sign to keep together the core if that’s the direction they want to go.
One of the orders of business for Beane this offseason is an extension or a contract reworking for Josh Allen, who has been grossly underpaid in the last few years and is set to make just $14.5 million in 2025.
“Josh and I will have those conversations holistically about the team, things like that,” Beane said after the season. “And I’m not saying it will happen, I’m not saying it won’t happen. I don’t really want to go into that…there’ll be a time and place, and not saying we will, but not ruling it out either.”