The NFL’s collective bargaining agreement proposal has been passed by the players — ensuring that we will have secured NFL football for the next decade. And while the dominoes are beginning to fall with personnel across the league, the biggest domino of all is that we officially know what the 2020 salary cap figure will be. Shortly after the news of the NFLPA’s ratification of the collective bargaining agreement dropped, word broke that the cap space for the 2020 season will be $198.2M.
The NFL Management Council just informed team officials the salary cap will be $198.2 million per club in 2020, per sources.
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) March 15, 2020
With $198.2 million in team spending power, Miami will enter the calendar year with the league’s high in available cap. How they choose to divvy that cash up among available talents is up to them — but the growing expectation is that the Dolphins will continue to be calculated with their price points. Miami may be more of a volume spender as it pertains to free agents, looking to infuse more bodies into the locker room than spending on only a select handful of higher cost players. With four top-40 selections scheduled for this year’s NFL Draft, it is an easy philosophy to get in line with.
So many of the Dolphins issues from the past have stemmed from exactly that mentality. So while the cap ceiling has been established, the next step is to see exactly what the Dolphins have taken from their missteps of the past will only be revealed once the spending starts.
Barring any last minute changes from the NFL, the floodgates open tomorrow afternoon.