2024 Worst Salary Cap Situations and Solutions The NFL Salary cap is unlike any other beast in professional sports. It's truly what makes the NFL the greatest league in the world in that it creates unparallelled parity. Every team only has so much money they can spend toward that cap every year, and there isn't a luxury tax, an apron, or a wink and nod agreement - it's a hard cap. Nobody can go over that number, not even by a penny, and it creates a league where you have to run your organization correctly or be forced to feel those negative decisions for years. Some teams can work around the salary cap at almost comical levels ala the Saints, and others run theirs like a tight ship, such as the Bengals. While there are 32 ways to manipulate the salary cap, everyone plays by the same rules, keep your team under the limit no matter what. In 2024 and beyond the NFL is going to see incredible increases in the salary cap number. Some of this is due to CBA rules but most is due ...