Salary cap breakdown: Jaguars top-heavy spenders at linebacker

How much 2026 salary cap space do the Jacksonville Jaguars have devoted to the linebacker position?

For this season, the league-wide salary cap was set at $301.2 million, and the Jaguars have $24.965 million invested in the linebacker position, according to Over the Cap.

Compared to the rest of the league, that is the eighth-largest cap figure at this position and accounts for 8.3% of the Jaguars’ allotted salary cap space.

 salary cap breakdown at linebacker

Accounting for a large portion of the Jaguars’ cap space at linebacker is Foye Oluokun, whose cap hit of $17.11 million is the fourth-largest on the team and is the fifth-most among all linebackers across the NFL.

The next largest cap hit at linebacker belongs to Dennis Gardeck at a modest $2.1 million.

Ventrell Miller, Jack Kiser, Jalen McLeod, Yasir Abdullah, and Parker Hughes are all on rookie deals. Branson Combs is a second-year UDFA.

Of this group, Miller has the largest cap hit in 2026 of $1.32 million.

The Jaguars’ cap spending at this position is very top-heavy.

This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: Salary cap breakdown: Jaguars top-heavy spenders at linebacker