NFL owners could be taking aim at a far bigger Eagles advantage than the 'Tush Push' [View all]

The Eagles maximized their spending all the way to a Super Bowl. Cheaper owners don't appear to want to do the same.

Think the NFL's attempts to ban the "Tush Push" were aimed at taking away a Philadelphia Eagles advantage? Well, that's small potatoes compared to what the league could be seeking to strip from the Birds at some point in the future.

One of the great advantages the Eagles have — maybe their biggest advantage — is the way they structure player contracts. They get use of players now, get charged for their services on the salary cap later.

Let's start with a simple example. Let's use Mekhi Becton, who signed with the Eagles last year on a one-year deal worth about $5.5 million. Becton counted for about $2 million on the Eagles' cap in 2024, the lone year he played in Philly. He'll count for about $3.5 million in "dead money" in 2025, when he'll play for the Chargers. If Becton had counted on the salary cap for the full $5.5 million in 2024, he'd have eaten up about 2.2 percent of the Eagles' cap. Instead, at $2 million, he ate up 0.8 percent.

Becton's remaining $3.5 million counted toward the 2025 cap in the form of a "void year." As the above chart shows, the NFL's salary cap rose by about $24 million from 2024 ($255.4 million) to 2025 ($279.2 million), a 9.3 percent increase. In other words, the bulk of Becton's salary cap charges were paid in a year in which the salary cap was higher, and thus easier to fit.

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