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Chiefs to roll over roughly $2.8 million in salary-cap space into 2023

The #Chiefs have declared roughly $2.8 million in unused salary-cap space for rollover into the 2023 NFL season.

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The Kansas City Chiefs will carry over the majority of their remaining 2022 salary cap into the 2023 NFL season.

The Chiefs declared $2,866,615 million in unused salary cap space for rollover at the conclusion 2022 NFL regular season according to ESPN’s Field Yates. This won’t be the final number for Kansas City when it comes to the amount of cap space they’ll carry into the 2023 NFL season. After the playoffs conclude, the NFL will do an audit of all incentives, bonuses, and triggers to calculate the final figure that the team will carry over into 2023.

Current projections expect the 2023 salary cap to exceed the $220 million mark. Including this expected carryover of their 2022 salary-cap space, the Chiefs should be right around the $25 million mark for 2023. Over The Cap projections put the team at $24,592,030 in cap space for the 2023 NFL season, but that’s before the team rids themselves of any contracts, extends any players, or restructures any of their current contracts. Brett Veach could have upwards of $75 million in cap space to use this season when it’s all said and done.

This salary-cap carryover is important because the Chiefs have a busy offseason ahead. There are quite a few pending free agents this offseason such as Orlando Brown Jr., JuJu Smith-Schuster, Mecole Hardman, Jerick McKinnon, Juan Thornhill, Carlos Dunlap and more. They’ll look to retain their own talent, but also supplement the team with some fresh faces once again.

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Chiefs to carry over roughly $1.3 million in salary-cap space into 2022

The #Chiefs will carry over the majority of their unused 2021 salary-cap space into 2022.

The Kansas City Chiefs will carry over the majority of their remaining 2021 salary cap into the 2022 NFL season.

The Chiefs have $1,322,092 in salary cap space remaining for the 2021 NFL season, and according to ESPN’s Field Yates, they’ve declared the unused cap space for rollover into the 2022 NFL season. This likely won’t be the final number for Kansas City, though. The NFL will do an audit of all incentives, bonuses, and triggers to calculate the final figure that the team will carry over into the 2022 NFL season.

This carryover puts the Chiefs’ salary-cap projections for the upcoming offseason up over the $30 million mark. That’s before the team rids themselves of any bloated contracts (Anthony Hitchens and Frank Clark) and restructures contracts (Patrick Mahomes). The NFL’s salary cap for the 2022 NFL season is set at $208.2 million and when it’s all said and done with, Brett Veach could have upwards of $60 million in cap space to use in free agency.

This salary-cap carryover is important because the Chiefs have a number of players that they’ll want to re-sign or extend this offseason and every little bit is going to help. Orlando Brown Jr., Tyrann Mathieu, Melvin Ingram and Byron Pringle are among the two dozen players scheduled to become unrestricted free agents. Looking ahead, a Tyreek Hill contract extension could also be forthcoming as well.

Whatever the case, it’ll be a busy offseason for the front office as they try to retain their own talent, while supplementing the team with some fresh faces.

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Cowboys initially carry over $25 million of unspent cap space into 2021

The Dallas Cowboys have always been a team that spent all the way right up to the salary cap, leaving no stone unturned. When the rules of the NFL changed in recent years, allowed organizations to rollover unspent cap space to the next season, …

The Dallas Cowboys have always been a team that spent all the way right up to the salary cap, leaving no stone unturned. When the rules of the NFL changed in recent years, allowed organizations to rollover unspent cap space to the next season, Dallas has taken advantage of that, but still remained one of the top spenders. They haven’t used it to buy high-priced free agents, but they’ve still spent to try and maximize their roster in the way they saw as best.

But in 2020, with a raging pandemic and a gigantic decrease in the usually always-exploding cap for the next season, Dallas was cautious in their spending. With a quarterback situation up in the air and a large sum of money already committed to a group of star players, the Cowboys didn’t open their wallets the way they had in the past, and therefore are rolling over a sizable amount of unused cap space into 2021. Dallas will take the third-highest amount with them in the league, $25.4 million.

This figure will be adjusted once incentive clauses (likely to be earned, not likely to be earned) from 2020 contracts are calculated.

The 2021 cap amount has not yet been decided. Last year, the league negotiated with the NFLPA that, in anticipation of lost money from having no or limited fans attending games, that they needed to set a floor for how low the cap could go, as it’s based on a percentage of revenue. That number was set at $175 million. The 2020 cap was over $198 million and the 2021 cap was projected to be at least $210 million.

In recent months, a number of $195 million has been floated as a potential landing spot for 2021 as the league added two extra playoff games this year and will add a 17th regular season game for all 32 clubs in 2021.

For Dallas, the rolled over cap space is earmarked on potentially having to place a second-consecutive franchise tag on QB Dak Prescott. Salary cap website Over the Cap has Dallas’ projected cap number for 2021 at $174 million already, and that’s without Prescott on the ledger. A second tag will take up $37.7 million of space.

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