Ranking 2026 salary cap space for all 32 NFL teams, including Jaguars
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With the NFL's 2026 salary cap now officially set, where do the Jacksonville Jaguars rank in salary cap space compared to the rest of the league heading into the 2026 offseason?
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The salary cap figure for this season is set at $301.2 million. This is up $22 million from the 2025 season and up nearly $100 million from 2022, when the cap figure was $208.2 million.
According to Over the Cap, this puts the Jaguars at $15.92 million over the salary cap ceiling, meaning that GM James Gladstone has work to do before free agency officially opens on March 11th.
Not only does he need to get under the salary cap, but he also needs room to be able to make any additions.
Cap space can be created in three different ways. One is through a contract restructure, which pushes cap charges from the current season to future contract years. In the present, a player's salary cap hit shrinks, but it's then inflated in 2027 and beyond.
In some instances, a contract extension can create cap space in the present as well. Travon Walker is a prime extension candidate this offseason that would save the Jaguars cap space in the process.
Lastly, there are veteran cuts or trades if the player's cap hit is larger than their dead cap hit.
The Jaguars actually have the ability to create quite a bit more space, as we detailed here, it just depends on how aggressive Gladstone wants to be.
Not helping the Jaguars' cap situation is the hefty amount of dead cap they are carrying in 2026 after quite a bit of roster turnover last year.
Below is each NFL team ranked by how much salary cap space they currently have.
2026 NFL salary cap rankings, including Jaguars
- Titans: $94.79M
- Raiders: $89.08
- Jets: $88.72M
- Chargers: $85.45M
- Commanders: $71.28M
- Seahawks: $59.51M
- Bengals: $50.43M
- Rams: $41.68M
- Patriots: $40.26M
- Steelers: $39.97M
- 49ers: $38.76M
- Colts: $33.21M
- Cardinals: $31.68M
- Broncos: $26.21M
- Bucs: $20.94M
- Ravens: $19.53M
- Eagles: $13.62M
- Panthers: $10.27M
- Falcons: $8.97M
- Giants: $2.77M
- Dolphins: $772,563
- Browns: $756,221
- Packers: ($4.09M)
- Chiefs: ($5.66M)
- Bills: ($6.28M)
- Bears: ($6.48M)
- Texans: ($7.48M)
- Saints: ($10.65M)
- Lions: ($12.15M)
- Jaguars: ($15.92M)
- Vikings: ($45.51M)
- Cowboys: ($56.13M)
Salary cap figures courtesy of Over the Cap.
This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: NFL sets 2026 salary cap; Jaguars ranked near bottom in space