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NFL 2023 salary cap gets big jump to $224.8 million

Levi Damien
USA TODAY Sports
Feb 6, 2017; Houston, TX, USA; NFL commissioner Roger Goodell holds a Super Bowl LII logo football at the Houston Super Bowl LI Host Committee Handoff Ceremony at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

It's time to adjust your thinking as to what each position on the field should be making. That's because as of next season, there will be a lot more money to go around.

The NFL informed teams today that the salary cap for next season will be a whopping $224.8 million. That's a jump of $16.6 million from last season's figure of $208.2 million.

It means every team is suddenly looking at having a lot more money to spend.

With this new number, the Raiders sit at just over $22 million in available cap space -- a number that will go up another $30 million with the cut or trade of Derek Carr.

Based on current cap figures at overthecap.com, that would make this the top five teams in terms of cap space:

  1. Chicago Bears $92M
  2. Atlanta Falcons $56.5M
  3. Las Vegas Raiders $52M
  4. New York Giants $45M
  5. Cincinnati Bengals $44M

It's going to be a crazy free agency period with some big contracts thrown around. I mean, bigger than usual.