Quote Originally Posted by Joemailman View Post
A PFT article from March 2014 had this to say:

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...llion-in-2016/

They were pretty close on the 2015 cap, so 160 in 2016 might not be out of the question.
I saw that one too but that was a year ago. They overshot this year by $2 mil so my guess is they overshot next year by at least $4 mil.

I haven't seen any other projection/guess in that neighborhood - much less $166 - in the last year.

The last three years have increased by $10 mil so in the absence of a fairly recent substantive projection to the contrary, I can't see a $20 million jump next year. Maybe that's right but I've not seen it. Even a huge $15 mil jump next year doesn't get the cap to $160 and that 50% higher increase falls quite a bit short of 25% in two years.