ALLEN PARK -- The salary cap is on the rise once again for 2020, this time surging to between $196.8 million and $201.2 million per team according to NFL Network. The cap is currently at $188.2 million.

Detroit currently has $168 million already committed to player contracts for 2020, plus has another $4.5 million in dead money, most of which is due to the trade of former safety Quandre Diggs ($3.6 million). The club is also still on the hook for Teez Tabor ($411,000), Michael Roberts ($150,000) and Travis Fulgham ($135,000).

But the Lions will also carry over nearly $20 million in unused cap space from this season.

Doing the math, the team currently projects to have between $44.3 million and $53.2 million in cap space. But that’s before a whole lot of moves to come., including the usual postseason cuts, in-house extensions and of course the signing of the draft class.

This marks the seventh straight season the cap has grown by at least $10 million per team. Since 2011, the cap has increased $76 million per club.