NFL makes notable announcement for the New Orleans Saints' salary cap situation this offseason

The New Orleans Saints have plenty of intriguing work to do this offseason. The salary cap will always be a discussion when it comes to their franchise nowadays. 

The entire league got a new, official reason to smile on Thursday, too. It's a money move for the NFL. 

NFL announces salary cap increase

The NFL has set the salary cap at $279.2 million per team for the 2025 season. That's a $23.8 million increase from last year's number. 

The escalation of the cap represents more than $100 million than what it sat at in 2018 ($177 million) and nearly $200 million more than it was in 2005 ($85.5 million). Only a brief COVID-induced downtick in 2021 has been able to slow the NFL machine. -- NFL.com

For the Saints, this is great news. They, of course, have quite a climb to get back to cap compliancy, and the entire league knows it. 

According to OverTheCap, the Saints are just over $47M over the cap as of now. Restructures, extensions, and cuts can all play a role in getting them in a much better spot by the time free agency begins. 

That being said, any sort of increase was going to help New Orleans. Making a jump of over twenty million is a sizable offseason win for their front office and Kellen Moore.