Kicking off a new series, we’ll be taking a look at spending rankings for every NFL position by team for the 2025 season. Dead cap hits from players who are no longer on the team do not count towards their positional spending, so Russell Wilson will not show up for the Broncos’ quarterback room despite carrying a dead cap hit of $32,000,000 for the year.

We’ve already covered the entire offense, each offensive position, and edge rusher. Now, we’re moving on to the rest of the defensive line, the defensive tackle. This is not one of the premium defensive positions, putting it near the cheapest position on the defense. Here’s a look at the most interior defensive line rooms in the league of players currently on the roster.

• Cap information compiled via Over The Cap
• Depth charts pulled from OurLads
• For interior defensive linemen, PFF grades are averages of the top two/three players from 2024

1 – Panthers: $49,180,729

• Percentage of total cap: 17.6 percent
• Top cap hit: Derrick Brown, $18,740,000 (6.6 percent)
• Other notable cap hit: A’Shawn Robinson, $9,610,000 (3.4 percent)
• Other notable cap hit: Tershawn Wharton, $6,533,333 (2.3 percent)
• PFF grade: 56.6 (24th)

LDENTRDE**Derrick BrownBobby Brown** III**LaBryan RayShy Tuttle**2 – Broncos: $46,730,016

• Percentage of total cap: 16.7 percent
• Top cap hit: Zach Allen, $19,795,000 (7.1 percent)
• Other notable cap hit: John Franklin-Myers, $10,000,000 (3.6 percent)
• Other notable cap hit: D.J. Jones, $6,600,000 (2.4 percent)
• PFF grade: 70.2 (9th)

LDENTRDE**Zach Allen****D.J. JonesSai’Vion JonesMalcolm Roach**3 – Titans: $46,404,929

• Percentage of total cap: 16.6 percent
• Top cap hit: Jeffery Simmons, $22,770,588 (7.6 percent)
• Other notable cap hit: Dre’Mont Jones, $8,500,000 (2.8 percent)
• PFF grade: 75.6 (2nd)

DENTDT**Sebastian Joseph-DayT’Vondre SweatJames Lynch****Keondre Coburn**4 – Colts: $44,887,090

• Percentage of total cap: 16.1 percent
• Top cap hit: DeForest Buckner, $26,600,000 (9.2 percent)
• Other notable cap hit: Grover Stewart, $14,250,000 (4.9 percent)
• PFF grade: 78.9 (1st)

LDTRDT**Grover StewartNeville GallimoreAdetomiwa Adebawore**5 – Cardinals: $43,207,610

• Percentage of total cap: 15.5 percent
• Top cap hit: Justin Jones, $11,345,000 (3.9 percent)
• Other notable cap hit: Bilal Nichols, $7,830,000 (2.7 percent)
• Other notable cap hit: Dalvin Tomlinson, $7,644,118 (2.6 percent)
• Other notable cap hit: Calais Campbell, $6,000,000 (2.0 percent)
• PFF grade: 59.9 (20th: Campbell, Tomlinson, Jones)

LDENTRDE**Calais CampbellDalvin TomlinsonDarius Robinson****Bilal Nichols**6 – Giants: $40,461,434

• Percentage of total cap: 14.5 percent
• Top cap hit: Dexter Lawrence, $23,664,012 (8.2 percent)
• PFF grade: 63.2 (15th)

DENTDT**Rakeem Nunez-RochesDexter LawrenceJeremiah Ledbetter****D.J. Davidson**7 – Commanders: $39,729,391

• Percentage of total cap: 14.2 percent
• Top cap hit: Daron Payne, $26,170,000 (8.8 percent)
• PFF grade: 52.6 (27th)

LDTRDT**Daron PayneJer’Zhan NewtonEddie Goldman**8 – Buccaneers: $39,459,345

• Percentage of total cap: 14.1 percent
• Top cap hit: Vita Vea, $22,465,064 (7.9 percent)
• PFF grade: 60.1 (19th)

LDENTRDE**Logan Hall****Vita VeaElijah RobertsGreg Gaines**9 – Steelers: $36,003,224

• Percentage of total cap:...