2022 NFL deals for players could have ripple effect on LA Rams roster

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Some teams entered the 2022 NFL season with no worries about fiscal constraints. On the contrary, over half of the 32 teams in the NFL viewed their 2022 roster as an opportunity to spend nearly $25 million on new players. No more players, mind you. But to shop for veteran players in the NFL Free Agency market.

One team that had copious amounts of money to spend was the Jacksonville Jaguars. And with a new head coach and a lot of desire to change their losing streak, the team wanted to make some noise in the 2022 NFL Free Agency market.

It’s never too early to look at next offseason! Here are the projected salary cap for the 2022 NFL season. #Packers all the way at the bottom; #Steelers all the way at the top. Where does your team stand? pic.twitter.com/LOq14HOoYS
— All Sports Culture (@ASCSportsMedia) May 7, 2021

Salary cap spending is not uniform in the NFL.

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Of course, for the players whose contracts ended after the 2021 NFL season, that was all music to their ears. But the Jaguars did not just tune up the band kind of noise. They set their loudspeakers to the highest volume setting and then began to bang on the kettle drums, rolling out a new contract to an NFL veteran player in such a loud and foreboding fashion that the news broke like a thunderstorm bearing down on Dorothy and Toto at their Kansas home.

Of course, NFL players were all for it. For 24 months, players had shared part of the burden of COVID-19 right alongside their NFL teams. They had stepped up to help salvage an NFL season when there was uncertainty about the future for players, teams, and the league. So as the NFL emerged from 2021 to the 2022 NFL season, not only were the teams eager to restore NFL economics to normal, the NFL Players’ Association (NFLPA) was just as eager to do so.

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