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Nothing has been formally agreed between the players and the owners yet, but it looks pretty likely that the players will get 48% of all revenues. In an earlier series of posts on revenue sharing, we looked at how that percentage of all revenues has developed over the last ten years, summarizes in the table below.

Obviously, the 48% that are being talked about means the players will be getting less than in previous years. But in exchange, the players get a mandatory minimum spending level, or a hard salary floor for every team. ESPN reports that the numbers currently being negotiated are somewhere between 90-93% of the salary cap. In 2009, the final capped year under the previous CBA, the floor was 87.6% of the cap.

The difference between the percentages may not sound like much, but it further closes the spending gap between teams, and may lead to changes in how the NFL operates.

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