{"id":503645,"date":"2026-02-27T19:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503645\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:16:12","slug":"nfl-sets-2026-salary-cap-at-record-301-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503645\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL sets 2026 salary cap at record $301.2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With NFL free agency just around the corner, teams now know exactly how much they can spend. <\/p>\n<p>The NFL announced a salary cap of $301.2 million for the 2026 season on Friday. It&#8217;s the highest salary cap in league history, and the first time the spending limit has breached the $300-million threshold.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a $22 millon increase from last season&#8217;s cap of $279.2 million. <\/p>\n<p>The 2026 league year is officially scheduled to begin on March 11. <\/p>\n<p>From March 9-11, teams will be permitted to contact and enter into contract negotiations with pending unrestricted free agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With NFL free agency just around the corner, teams now know exactly how much they can spend. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-503645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}