{"id":508116,"date":"2026-02-27T19:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508116\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:02:08","slug":"carolina-panthers-updated-salary-cap-space-after-nfl-confirms-301-2-million-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508116\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers’ updated salary cap space after NFL confirms $301.2 million ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time to take an updated look at the Carolina Panthers’ salary cap space ahead of free agency after the league has confirmed the new ceiling<\/a> for 2026.<\/p>\n

According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter<\/a>, the league revealed that the new salary cap will come in at $301.2 million, which is an increase of a whopping $22 million<\/a> from last season.<\/p>\n

And with that increase, the salary cap has gone up in every year but one since 2013, when the cap number was $123 million.<\/p>\n

No surprise there, as the NFL continues to grow and rake in a ton of money each and every season.<\/p>\n

Panthers’ updated cap space\"Carolina<\/p>\n

Carolina Panthers head coach Dave Canales. | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Before the NFL’s confirmation, Over The Cap<\/a> projected a $303.5 million salary cap for 2026, and at that number the Panthers were sitting with a projected $12.5 million in cap space.<\/p>\n

With the number coming in at $2.3 million lower than the Over The Cap projection, we have to shave that amount off Carolina’s total.<\/p>\n

So, quick math: the Panthers now have an estimated $10.2 million to work with this offseason before making any moves.<\/p>\n

While that’s not a lot, the Panthers have multiple avenues to free up more, with cuts, restructures and extensions all being possibilities.<\/p>\n

When it comes to cut candidates, four players to keep an eye on are defensive lineman A’Shawn Robinson, quarterback Andy Dalton, tight end Tommy Tremble and EDGE Patrick Jones.<\/p>\n

Cutting those four players would free up about $23 million in cap space for the Panthers to use in free agency.<\/p>\n

We’d also peg Tremble as an extension candidate if the Panthers don’t want to let him go and want to lower his $8 million cap hit. Guard Damien Lewis is also someone who could warrant a new deal with a $16.7 million cap hit incoming.<\/p>\n

No matter how they go about it, we fully expect Carolina to open up more cap space in order to make a push for improvements through free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s time to take an updated look at the Carolina Panthers’ salary cap space ahead of free agency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-508116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}