Fiscal Responsibility and the Salary Cap
The latest newsletter from KCSN Sports Data Scientist, Joseph Hefner.
With the Chris Jones situation still hanging in the balance, and rumors flying about APY and guarantees and everything else, I decided to write about cap hits in the NFL.
The salary cap is one of the NFL’s best ways of providing some level of parity between the teams. Teams can’t spend over the salary cap, or they face punishments from the league. Howeve…