With the financially impacting coronavirus pandemic in the sports world, there is a lot of uncertainty around the NFL salary cap in 2021. After seeing how the NFL hit $ 198.2 million per team by 2020, next season’s peak could drop to $ 175 million. .
Regardless, it has been known that the Jags will be fine in terms of cork space. Often, by 2020, he was expected to have the maximum amount of space for next season, which made his vacancies as head coach and general manager more attractive than they already were.
According to ESPN’s Field Yates, a portion of the Jags ’total cap for 2021 will amount to an investment of approximately $ 23.4 million, which would be the fourth highest amount. A figure that is also well above the league average, as the Los Angeles Rams are in the center with a figure of $ 5.67 million.
According to Spotrac, the Jags will be the first in the NFL with a salary cap of $ 74.6 million if the NFL salary cap drops to $ 175 million. Of course, this is largely due to all the huge contracts they negotiated last season, such as those held by AJ Bouye and Calais Campbell. They also avoided having to pay Yannick Ngakoue, the defender, his franchise salary ($ 19.316 billion) as they traded him to Minnesota.
When you look at who’s on the list now, only four players are expected to have a maximum limit of more than $ 9 million. These players are center Brandon Linder ($ 9 million), defender Joe Schobert ($ 9.9 million), defender Myles Jack ($ 12.1 million) and guard Andrew Norwell ($ 15.5 million). dollars).
The Jags could also save about $ 9.9 million if they release players like guard AJ Cann and locked-in Tyler Eifert (contract option). Nor would it hurt to keep them both if that is what the current regime wants to do as well.
As for their outstanding free agents, the most prominent players the Jags may have to decide on are left-handed strikers Cam Robinson, receiver Keelan Cole and corner Sidney Jones IV. Once they decide for themselves, they shouldn’t miss the maximum space available to meet their many needs and perhaps get help for the quarterback they most expect to take on: Trevor Lawrence.