The NFL’s salary cap for the 2025 season will be $279.2 million, the league announced Thursday.

The Patriots hold $127.7 million in cap space, most in the league by more than $30 million, according to Over the Cap. The next closest team, Las Vegas, has $96.4 million.

The salary cap increased by $24 million from last season, when the Patriots intentionally preserved some cap room to roll it over into this offseason. Head coach Mike Vrabel indicated the team is planning to be among the league’s top spenders next month in free agency.

“We want to be aggressive,” Vrabel said Tuesday at the NFL Scouting Combine. “We want to target players we feel like are going to help us, that are going to be outstanding players, and are going to be outstanding additions to the locker room and the community, and if that all fits and the compensation fits, but I’m confident we’ll be aggressive, we’ve started some of those discussions internally, and I think having different plans and having an Option A, an Option B, I mean things are going to change.”

Executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf spoke about the team’s plans for its cap space Wednesday.

“We’re not going to be frivolous. We’re going to do what we think is best,” Wolf said. “We have to do what’s necessary. So last year we didn’t do enough of what was necessary. This year, we have to do what’s necessary to improve the team.”