The NFL combine opens the league’s offseason, with everything supposed to be about the upcoming NFL draft. What is actually true is that the three most important things that happen are not available to the general public: Medical evaluations, interviews with teams, and veteran negotiations that are not supposed to happen (including trades and NFL free agency).
For the Cleveland Browns, NFL free agency may not be significant, but GM Andrew Berry will be looking to make some moves. Salary cap space
is always an interesting conversation, with projections earlier this offseason that things would continue to go up. The Browns have ways to make space with a variety of moves, if they want to do so.
With the league year opening in two weeks, the league has made this year’s salary cap number official at $301.2 million:
Every team’s cap number is different due to rollover cap. Cleveland is expected to have a total salary cap of around $320 million due to around $20 million in rollover cap space from the 2025 season.. With the news now official, the Browns are believed to be salary cap compliant before making any of the moves they could to create cap space (post June 1st, restructures, extensions).
The above chart shows the signficant growth of the NFL over the last five years, with the salary cap adding over $100 million in that timeframe, an increase of over 50%.
