This article suggests that the cap in 2021 might be $200M, although personally I expect the league and the NFLPA to make it easy on themselves by making to 2021 cap higher than that. Teams made a lot of contract decisions assuming a $215M cap in 2021: to me it makes sense to kick more of this year's losses into 2023 and 2024 (which would affect far fewer existing contracts.)
From this article: [
www.profootballnetwork.com]
However, in the latest episode of Pro Football Network’s NFL Draft Insiders podcast, Chief Draft Analyst and Insider Tony Pauline shed some more light on the situation. Pauline stated that currently, it is thought that the NFL would use a system of borrowing against future caps to protect the 2021 salary cap from a sharp drop. In fact, Pauline even stated that the NFL’s salary cap could potentially rise a small amount to $200 million in 2021.Edit: it's that the system Pauline anticipated has since been agreed to by the league and the NFLPA: they will jointly decide how to spread this year's losses over the next 4 salary caps.
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