The National Football League announced on Wednesday that the 2021 salary cap will be set at $182.5 million per-club.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lost revenue, that’s a reduction of over $15 million from a year ago, when the cap stood at $198.2 million, and even below the 2019 league-wide cap of $188.2 million.
According to the website Spotrac, after rollovers and adjustments allowed under league rules, the Buffalo Bills’ total salary cap ceiling is $188.3 million. That leaves the team roughly $4 million under the cap when the new league year begins on Wednesday, March 17, at 4 p.m. ET.
At that time, every NFL team must be below their team salary cap number. Only the top 51-cap hits for each team are counted in that figure.
The Bills gained a little extra space on Tuesday by reducing center Mitch Morse’s base salary by nearly $2 million (that’s included in the $4 million referenced above). They have 14 pending unrestricted free agents, three pending restricted free agents, and the 2021 NFL Draft class that still has to be signed.
Between now and next Wednesday, the team will most likely be making moves to clear more space, whether through restructures or releases.
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