The NFL unveiled the 2025 salary cap range on Wednesday, and the Buffalo Bills and the other clubs should be pleased.
According to the league, the salary limit will be between $277.5 million and $281.5 million, a significant increase from the $255.4 million salary cap in 2024. This means that the cap will have climbed by more than $53 million in the last two years.
Over the Cap anticipated the salary cap to be $272.5 million, but Spotrac had it at $275 million, so regardless of whatever site you used, NFL teams, including the Bills, would have more cap space than we expected.
According to Spotrac, the Bills were expected to be around $12 million above the cap. With this news, the Bills will be at worst $10 million over, and at best $5.5 million over. One or two simple moves, and they’re cap compliant, with additional moves ready to go before they even look for players to release.
In January, following the Bills’ season, general manager Brandon Beane said the following about the cap:
“We won’t be in as deep of a cap hole [in 2025],” Beane told me. “We had some figures that were easier to change from last year…I don’t think we have as many of those possibilities, but that’s fine. We also need to remember that we have guys who are about to get extensions…I don’t expect us to be major spenders in free agency, as I mentioned here a year ago.
The Bills have only a few big free agents this offseason, but next offseason, they will need to re-sign a bevy of guys to keep the core together if that is the path they want to go.
One of Beane’s top priorities this summer is to extend or renegotiate Josh Allen’s deal, who has been badly underpaid in recent years and is due to earn only $14.5 million in 2025.
“Josh and I will have those conversations holistically about the team, things like that,” Beane said after the season. “And I’m not saying it will happen, I’m not saying it won’t happen. I don’t really want to go into that…there’ll be a time and place, and not saying we will, but not ruling it out either.”
