Increase to NFL Salary Cap Gives Teams Flexibility to Re-Sign Veteran Stars

March 1, 2014   ·   Gary Davenport   ·   Jump to comments

It's hard getting old in the NFL.
It's even harder in the era of the salary cap. As players hit and then pass the age of 30, their salaries increasing all the while, a tipping point is reached where they risk becoming the dreaded "salary cap casualty."
However, those aging veterans got some news on Friday that could mean not only longer careers in some cases, but also that many of them won't be spending the twilight of their careers as NFL bedouins, moving from team to team on one-year deals.
As Albert Breer of NFL.com tweeted, the league informed its 32 teams on Friday that the 2014 salary cap will be set at $133 million, an increase of $10 million over last year:
As Fox Sports pointed out, it's a much steeper increase than the two seasons that preceded it:
Even better was the news passed along by ESPN's Adam Schefter earlier in the day:
So, not only is the cap increasing significantly in 2014, but those raises are expected to continue annually over the n...

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