In an offseason filled with news about a shrinking salary cap in 2021, the Bills got some good news this week.
According to ESPN’s Field Yates, the Bills officially carried over $5.9 million in salary cap space from 2020. That number is tacked onto their cap total for next season.
Each team has a different amount of space that carries over. The Bills’ number is the 21st highest. Only one team lost cap space in this movement, and that was the Bucs, who probably had to pay out some Super Bowl-winning bonuses to players.
We think they’ll live with that.
On the flip side, the Browns’ $29.4M figure is the largest.
It’s hard to pin exactly where the Bills are at in terms of the 2021 salary cap at this point because we still don’t know what that final number will be. According to Spotrac’s latest figures as of Friday, if the 2021 salary cap is set at $185M next season, Buffalo will have $5.3M in cap space.
Regardless, the Bills and general manager Brandon Beane still have to make some financial moves in the coming weeks to free up more room. Latest reports suggest that the final 2021 salary cap number might not come down from the league until right before free agency opens on March 17.
Stay tuned to Bills Wire for all those updates.
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