Salary Cap

Denver Broncos

Denver carries the cleanest dead-money situation in the league at just $1.0M, ranked 32nd of 32, which means nearly every dollar committed is attached to active roster value. Current cap room sits at $32.7M, good for 11th in the league, giving the front office genuine spending power this cycle. The challenge is next season, where available room collapses to $2.0M, ranked 23rd, as the committed figure rises to $322.0M. The good news is that the roster holds several logical cut candidates whose releases, particularly Ben Powers at $12.5M freed, Evan Engram at $11.0M freed, and D.J. Jones at $10.1M freed, can recapture meaningful space if acted on now. By the third year of committed spending the books drop to $270.2M, and by the fourth year to $141.5M, signaling a wide-open cap window in the back half of the plan that can accommodate both extensions for the young core and external additions.