NFL teams can roll over leftover salary cap space from the current season into the next year each winter. This season, the Denver Broncos had about $10.6 million worth of unused cap space that will be added to general manager George Paton’s total for 2023.
Denver is rolling over the third-highest unused cap total in the NFL, according to ESPN’s Field Yates. Only the Cleveland Browns ($27.58 million) and Carolina Panthers ($10.75 million) have higher totals.
The NFL still has to audit incentives and bonuses before confirming official rollover numbers for each team, but the Broncos’ number should be similar to this initial estimate.
Denver currently has $221,682,223 worth of cap space going toward 2023 contracts (top 51), according to OverTheCap.com. The league’s salary cap is expected to be more than $220 million next year, according to NFL Network. So before making any cap-saving moves, the Broncos are projected to have about $9.5 million in cap space going into the offseason.
As things stand now, it looks like Denver won’t be able to make many big splashes during free agency, especially with several of their own in-house free agents deserving of contract extensions.
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