Perfect 12-Team Fantasy Football Draft for 2024
Updated August 27, 2024 Since the mid-1990s, I’ve been quite successful in fantasy football. I’ve been asked, “What’s your secret?” Well, there’s not a secret [...]
Top Five Mistakes Fantasy Football Owners Make
Winning in fantasy football is fun. There’s a thrill in building your team and beating your league-mates. However, there are a few critical mistakes that many fantasy owners make that [...]
NFL Cash Spending Through the Years
When the salary cap was introduced in 1994, the narrative that the team owners and league executives pushed was that they needed a mechanism that would ensure that each team spent (roughly) the [...]
History of the NFL Salary Cap: Each Year’s Salary Cap Number 1994-Present
Updated March 19, 2025 The NFL salary cap and free agency were first implemented in 1994, in response to a lawsuit filed by a group of NFL players in the late 1980s. The two sides negotiated for [...]
There’s No Such Thing as a Cap Casualty, Keenan Allen Proves It
On March 14, 2024, the Los Angeles Chargers traded star wide receiver Keenan Allen to the Chicago Bears. Allen has one year left on his current contract. He’s slated to become a free agent [...]
What is the Rookie Cap, Rookie Pool, and Rookie Wage Scale?
Rookie salaries and contracts in the NFL are often misunderstood. Even many media types that cover the NFL don’t seem to fully understand how it all works. In 2011, as part of the new [...]