Updated NFL Salary Cap Outlook for All 32 Teams After 2026 NFL Draft

The 2026 NFL Draft is in the history books, and soon, all 32 teams will look to get their rookies under contract and prepare them for the upcoming season.

Some are in better shape from a salary cap perspective than others, with some having excessive amounts remaining, while others suffer from bad deals, poor trades, and an abundance of dead cap space.

On which side does your team land, and which two teams are in polar opposite situations as the best and worst cap space situations in the game? Find out in this look at the current cap situation in the NFL.

2026 Cap Space

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The cap space before signing all players and the rookie class is:

Tennessee Titans ($63,118,380)

Washington Commanders ($49,506,244)

Los Angeles Chargers ($45,814,740)

San Francisco 49ers ($44,907,747)

Arizona Cardinals ($40,835,523)

New York Jets ($39,551,357)

New England Patriots ($35,708,626)

Seattle Seahawks ($32,792,183)

Baltimore Ravens ($27,674,010)

Indianapolis Colts ($26,627,200)

Los Angeles Rams ($25,944,238)

Pittsburgh Steelers ($25,582,705)

Green Bay Packers ($24,614,250)

Las Vegas Raiders ($22,722,186)

Detroit Lions ($22,582,868)

Cleveland Browns ($21,284,197

Atlanta Falcons ($19,117,655)

Denver Broncos ($18,782,088)

New York Giants ($18,124,565)

Minnesota Vikings ($16,071,234)

Philadelphia Eagles ($16,071,234)

New Orleans Saints ($13,897,399)

Dallas Cowboys ($13,106,278)

Houston Texans ($12,934,353)

Tampa Bay Buccaneers ($12,815,460)

Buffalo Bills ($11,866,991)

Jacksonville Jaguars ($11,078,713)

Chicago Bears ($10,794,549)

Cincinnati Bengals ($10,794,549)

Kansas City Chiefs ($5,947,066)

Carolina Panthers ($1,902,996)

Miami Dolphins ($1,755,394)

Cap numbers via Over The Cap

Titans Boast Largest Cap Space

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The Tennessee Titans exit the 2026 NFL Draft with the most cap space in the league. Even if you consider Effective Cap Space, which takes into account signing 51 players and the rookie draft class, they are still comfortably ahead of their fellow teams in cap space availability.

The team cut center Lloyd Cushenberry III and cornerback Xavier Woods to create some of that space and will now have the ability to extend stars, sign rookies, and add any other remaining free agents they deem worthy and still have significant space left over.

At 3-14 in 2025, the team has a ways to go under new head coach Robert Saleh, but second-year quarterback Cam Ward showed flashes of being the game-changing quarterback that he was at the University of Miami in his rookie campaign, creating genuine excitement within the fan base for the first time in years.

Whether the team hit on its draft picks in order to build the team around Ward will ultimately decide if this year's draft and roster building were effective or not.

Dolphins Moves Limit Cap Space

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The Miami Dolphins have the worst cap situation in the NFL, and much of that stems from the moves the organization made in the wake of another disappointing season.

Cutting Tyreek Hill cost them $28.2 million in dead cap space, while moving on from quarterback Tua Tagovailoa costs upwards of $99.2 million.

Add in Jaylen Waddle, now a Denver Bronco following a trade, and his $26.3 million hit, and you have a scenario in which the team's failures to build a winner with the talent put in place by the previous regime have positioned it to rebuild without the means to do so effectively.

Over the Cap estimates the total dead cap number at $179,204,257, a record number for the NFL and a hurdle nearly impossible to overcome in the first year of a rebuild.