NFL salary cap set at $167m for 2017, an increase of $12m

The NFL salary cap for the upcoming season will be $167m per team, up more than $12m over last year.

The league and the NFL Players Association compile the cap from specific revenues, and it has risen annually. It was $143.28m two years ago.

This is the fourth consecutive year the cap has risen at least $10m.

Player benefits also are included under the ten-year labour agreement reached to end the 2011 lockout. That comes to $37m per team, bringing the players' total compensation package to over $200m per club for the first time.

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Since 2011, the cap has increased by $47m.

Also, 2017 is the first year of a four-season minimum spending period of 89 per cent per club and 95 per cent leaguewide.

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