Salary Cap

Arizona Cardinals

The Cardinals are managing a difficult cap picture right now, with $59.3M in dead money ranking seventh-most in the entire league and shaping what they can do this season. Current cap room sits at $37.9M, which is a top-five figure leaguewide and provides meaningful flexibility for in-season moves. The rollover of $12.9M adds a modest cushion. The real inflection point arrives next offseason, when Arizona projects $123.0M in cap space, the fourth-most in the league, creating the kind of financial runway needed to address multiple starters at once. Committed salary falls from $228.5M this year to $201.2M next year and then sharply to $126.4M and $81.6M in subsequent years, meaning the team gets dramatically lighter on the books as the rebuild matures. With 30 expiring contracts on the roster, the front office will have enormous control over which players return and at what cost, making the financial outlook significantly brighter than the current dead-money figure suggests.