Can't trade because of salary cap?

[Drek Durshell]

I am not an expert in NFL economics, however, I'm trying to trade draft picks for a player, and they want to accept, except that it would put them over their salary cap.

I'm confused.
1. They are below their salary cap.
2. Trading a player should help their salary cap.

I even tried adding 2 crap players to help their salary cap even more, but no luck.

Am I missing something, or is it just an EA "feature"?

[Arisen242]

1. how much low are they on the salary cap?
2. its depends if there not in the negative.

[Cesco]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Madden/comments/1c5uzag/madden_24_salary_cap_management/

This is how the salary cap works in Madden 24 and 25. Maybe the percentages are a bit different but the part about the penalties is the info you need that will make you an expert.

Good luck!

[Drek Durshell]

They were 200-300k below their cap, and the player Z. Zinter had a 900k cap hit.
Since I'm trading for the player, I should be taking the cap hit, no?

Anyways, I just went back a couple of games into the season, and traded a pick and a player for him without problems.
But they had improved their cap to 1,5m in the meantime.

[Cesco]

Originally posted by Drek Durshell:

They were 200-300k below their cap, and the player Z. Zinter had a 900k cap hit.
Since I'm trading for the player, I should be taking the cap hit, no?

Anyways, I just went back a couple of games into the season, and traded a pick and a player for him without problems.
But they had improved their cap to 1,5m in the meantime.

It's just possible they traded someone or you were trading for someone that had a signing bonus left on his first 5 contract years. That bonus you give players when you sign them will always be paid to them, depends on if they are traded/cut or not how they will get that bonus and how it will effect their salary cap.

The post is a long one, but it explains exactly how it works with examples.