{"id":529232,"date":"2026-03-17T18:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/529232\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:23:08","slug":"salary-cap-ramifications-of-denver-broncos-trade-for-jaylen-waddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/529232\/","title":{"rendered":"Salary cap ramifications of Denver Broncos trade for Jaylen Waddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After such a quiet open to free agency that saw the Denver Broncos re-sign their 2025 players and add zero players from the outside, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milehighreport.com\/denver-broncos-free-agency\/173805\/the-denver-broncos-are-trading-for-wide-receiver-jaylen-waddle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit us with a mega blockbuster trade<\/a> with the Miami Dolphins to land wide receiver Jaylen Waddle. There are dull moments in Broncos Country, but that dull moments seem to just be the quiet before a storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Frankly, they needed this trade. Picking late in the first round was not going to net the type of impact player the offense desperately needed. And the best part? The salary cap will barely move in 2026 from this trade. Let\u2019s take a look at how it breaks down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/72385\/jaylen-waddle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Spotrac<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Denver will receive just a $4.9M cap hit for 2026 with the Dolphins eating the other $23.2M. So for this season, they will get an impact receiver at a very reduced cap cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Things will get interesting after this season, though, as the total cap will now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/denver-broncos\/overview\/_\/year\/2027\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rise to $337.7M with just 37 players under contract<\/a>. That would put them $14.7M over the projected cap for next season. The championship window is literally now and Sean Payton has pushed all his chips in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What do you think of the trade and, more importantly, how do you think the Broncos will navigate the salary cap after this season?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After such a quiet open to free agency that saw the Denver Broncos re-sign their 2025 players and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[238038,349,99],"class_list":["post-529232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-denver-broncos-salary-cap","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}