Baltimore Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta has his work cut out for him this offseason. The salary cap is expected to actually decrease for the first time in over a decade. DeCosta and the Ravens won’t get much help by rolling over their remaining 2020 salary cap space either.
According to ESPN’s Field Yates, Baltimore will roll over just $586,822. While that seems like a lot of money, it’s actually the lowest total of all 32 teams. By comparison, the Cleveland Browns will roll over the most money, getting more than $30 million added to their 2021 salary cap total.
With the coronavirus pandemic limiting revenue this season, as stadiums were held empty or to a severely limited capacity, the salary cap will be directly impacted. It’s unclear where the NFL will eventually set the 2021 salary cap but it’s expected to be around $175 million, which would be a drop of more than $23 million. If that does indeed happen, roughly a dozen teams will have negative cap space heading into the offseason, according to Over The Cap.
The Ravens are currently projected to have $29.79 million in available cap space, per Over The Cap. But that’s also before the team’s 12 futures contracts and restricted free agent tenders are taken into account. As Brian McFarland of Russell Street Report figured out, Baltimore will likely only have around $10 million by the time they get to free agency, barring players getting cut or restructured.
