2017 NFL cap is.........$167 million

[SDGuy73]

Last year it was $155.3M. Happy spending!!

 

[BigKen]

Patriots will have $61.5M to spend in free agency. They have approx. $110.5N committed to the team. There 's $5.5M Rookie allotment.

If the Pats are careful, they may be able to sign their own FAs and a few to help.

 

[BigKen]

Tom E. Curran was on Sports Tonight last night and stated that the Patriots with the release of Vollmer and several other moves now have $72M to spend. Still have to subtract $5.5M for the draft picks but that still leaves them with $66.5M. But even Curran said that they just can't be handing out $15M per contracts to everyone. If you gave HT, Butler, Bennett and Logan contracts that averaged $10M that would eat up 60-65% of all that money and would cripple the team's ability to offer decent paydays to high quality free agents.

Curran said that more than 8 potential free agents (3/9/17) have already visited Foxboro on the QT. They flew into either Providence or Manchester and drove a simple rental. He didn't even hint as to who they were. Someone has to be sitting a car in the Gillette parking lot with high range binocular and 600x Nikon lens with night vision.

 

[NWPATSFAN]

Tom E. Curran was on Sports Tonight last night and stated that the Patriots with the release of Vollmer and several other moves now have $72M to spend. Still have to subtract $5.5M for the draft picks but that still leaves them with $66.5M. But even Curran said that they just can't be handing out $15M per contracts to everyone. If you gave HT, Butler, Bennett and Logan contracts that averaged $10M that would eat up 60-65% of all that money and would cripple the team's ability to offer decent paydays to high quality free agents.

Curran said that more than 8 potential free agents (3/9/17) have already visited Foxboro on the QT. They flew into either Providence or Manchester and drove a simple rental. He didn't even hint as to who they were. Someone has to be sitting a car in the Gillette parking lot with high range binocular and 600x Nikon lens with night vision.

What an exciting off-season for the Pats and their fans. Coming off the SB they still have their coaches and most of their key players. The FAs that leave are replacable as there are a lot of vets looking for winning franchises. Having that much cap is unheard of. I hope BB makes one big splash in the FA market and signs #1 Butler, #2 HT and #3 MB. Butler is the only guy I'm stuck on needing to return. NE has 9 picks if I rember correctly? In a year with a strong draft class where NE needs the most help. You go BB.

 

[Southieinnc]

Tom E. Curran was on Sports Tonight.....

Curran said that more than 8 potential free agents (3/9/17) have already visited Foxboro on the QT. They flew into either Providence or Manchester and drove a simple rental. He didn't even hint as to who they were. Someone has to be sitting a car in the Gillette parking lot with high range binocular and 600x Nikon lens with night vision.

I was hoping that would be you, Ken!