Chiefs sign Sorrenson to 4 year, $16M contract
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Chiefs banged out (cc: <a href="https://twitter.com/daringantt">@daringantt</a>) an agreement with S Daniel Sorensen: 4 years for $16m, almost half guaranteed. Another $2m in incentives</p>&mdash; Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeGarafolo/status/840548503352967169">March 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Surprised by the length, damn we have a lot of money tied up in our safeties. If the Chiefs don't go QB I. Round one, they better be looking corner. Got to remain cheap there thus rookie contracts.

I like This guy. He plays with attitude and energy. Big motor.

Saw this coming. Played well enough for it. We are set at safety, now we just need to get the linebacker and corner depth figured out

this is a solid deal for both sides here, love this!

Good contract for both sides.

Sorenson is over valued here, and this contract is too much for a guy that can be as easily replaced as he can be.

Sorensons the best White safety in the NFL.

Hey, look, that misplaced copy of LDT's contract seems to have turned up.

Good signing

I think this is pretty solid. He's not flashy, but he's a solid player and seems to be around the ball most of the time.

Wrong.

I think this is fair value for both Sorenson and the Chiefs.

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It seems houston and berry have changed Dorsey's mind on letting players "prove it" in the last year.

Yes. **** this guy and **** this deal.

Find someone who can nab you 60+ tackles, 3 INT, forced fumbles and has the position versatility he has for $4 million per or less not on a rookie contract.

Bitching for the sake of bitching. It ain't your money, so why the butthurt? Guy knows the system, is loved in the locker room and can ball.

But I get it - he wasn't voted to the PROBOWL and his Madden rankings/stats are just ok.

Dummies.

Sorensen could be replaced with an average veteran free agent or a mid-round draft pick easily.

His WAR would be zero

Wow. That's rape for a backup safety special teamer

He does okay in his role in pass defense, but he's also asked to play in the box, where he is a liability.

And this has nothing to do with meaningless accolades, and I have never played Madden.

I also think that Berry is overpaid, and I'm a big fan of Berry.

He's an ascending player that's young and knows the system. This has the feel of Dorsey trying to sign he and LDT on their potential before they fully hit it and demand huge bucks on the FA market. I have no issue with this.

makes good sense

Face it, EVERYBODY is overpaid. Look at the 8-10 million per year signed by jobbers. Mike Glennon got 15 million per for ****s sake.

Do you live on Twitter? Not sure your end game for posting EVERY questionable Chief move, turd.

Looking at this objectively, he was developed to replace Husain Abdullah and to his credit, he had a better 2016 season than any Abdullah had combined in his 3 years here.

He's really bad vs the run though, but I think part of that is getting left in the nickel with no help.

It looks like a reasonable contract so I don't see a big issue here. But I agree that Eric Murray could do his job well.

How would a Chiefs fan be treated if he posted all the Broncos updates on the Mange?

This news broke an hour before I posted it. I was surprised it wasn't posted already.

I have no problem keeping him. He will only get better and has gotten better an earned more playing time. He's got a high motor and has made some plays when on the field.

My Madden comment was not specifically directed at you. But "knee jerk planet" does not take long to surface at the announcing of new contracts/acquisitions. The fact that Sorenson CAN play in the box, on teams, and blitz, and play in coverage should tell us something.

I agree with your Berry comment. More have to realize that these players are being compensated for more than what we just see on Sundays. I view Sorenson as a very dependable, consistent player with a huge versatility plus. Not a lot of players can do what he can, as well as he can.

Why would I care who posts the news?

But, Sorenson can not actually play in the box.

He's a liability in that role.

They played him there last season out of necessity due to injury, not out of design. At the very least, he showed them his value was in the defensive backfield at safety, not near the line.

Anyone know why defensive players like Sorensen, Zombo, DeVito, Studebaker, McGraw, Monty Beisel, Kawika Mitchell, Fujita, Mazlowski, Boomer Grigsby, Rich Scanlon, etc etc etc are always overrated on ChiefsPlanet? (and those are just the ones who make the team...)

This

Sorenson is 1000x better than. The rest of those guys. Not even close

^ This.

The perverbial "yeoman's service".

I think the draft will feature a lot of front 7 picks. Many questions at both ILB/OLB along with the NT position.
Believe it or not, I think we may move early on a WR as well. Maclin has to justify his contract this year after a disappointing 2016.

Chiefs signed S Daniel Sorensen to a four-year, $16-million extension through 2020.

NFL Network's Mike Garafolo reports almost half of the deal is guaranteed and another $2 million is available via incentives. It is a good contract for a player who had primarily been a special teamer before taking on a bigger defensive role last season. Sorensen just turned 27.

I like Sorenson, athletic and good in pass coverage

but he is a liability in run defense, misses tackles and gets completely blown out of plays by fullbacks and guards.

I hope he improves in run defense, got absolutely owned by Bell and Co in the playoffs.

CP hated most of those guys anyway outside of one or 2 dingbats (like the Roy's and Scanlon)

Unlike Ron Parker- Sorensen makes big plays. I still don't see what Parker does back there besides give up touchdowns.

Dirty Dan should be worth this contract, glad to have him back.

Win/Win

I'm not sure why anyone would. Hell I appreciate not having to search for it

Shotgun Bang, wassup with that thang!!

I doubt it is going to happen and I don't hate Ron Parker but I wonder if this might be the end for him. We can cut him and save $4.6M in cap space with only $1M in dead money. :shrug:

Don't know what's not to like here. Guy plays hard, probably does everything that is asked of him at the drop of a hat, and makes plays. Is he great vs. the run at ILB? No, but then again, he's not a damn inside linebacker. You wanna blame someone for that, blame Sutton for overusing the dime package or acknowledge the poor health at ILB last year.

I hadn't realized untilt the past couple of weeks upon re-watching just how much dime package Sutton used against Pittsburgh. Basically sat in it all night vs. 3 WRs.

That can't happen against Pittsburgh's OL. Not blaming Sorensen for that gameplannning miscue.

Just kidding around mostly - but it's a given that a white defensive player will be significantly overrated on CP

I am not blaming any one for anything.

I am pointing out that Sorenson isn't nearly as versatile and valuable as people here make him out to be.

He's a solid cover safety in the middle of the field, but not all that great in man, and a liability in the box.

Yup.

This is a big-time coach's pet misstep.

There's no way on earth that Sorenson would've made that much on the open market; nothing even close. We just paid a hometown premium while dealing with a tight cap.

We'll see how much of this is guaranteed but unless there's pretty much zero in GTD money, this is a mistake.

Got the new good ol boy network at Arrowhead. This one is good enough to win you a wildcard game tho.

Almost half is guaranteed

New England killing it while the Chiefs are signing shit.


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Facts.

I have a feeling Parker is gone next season with his cap hit going up to 7 million. Sorensen/Murray can fill that role next year and their* combined cap hit is much easier on the team than paying Ron.

Unless his game falls off big time, I wouldn't cut Parker. He's been steady, durable, and a pretty damn good safety for us who is versatile enough to play single high or roll up in the slot and cover man to man.

Worth $7 million at the level he played last year.

I think he is one of the most underrated players on the roster but I honestly believe once we shore up the linebacker position and our corners aren't ass opposite to Peters, we won't need his services especially at that price. Murray's time to shine.

He almost got Ron Parker money.



Countdown until zombo gets a brand new spankity 5yr/30m deal

I am hoping it is a new contract for Colquitt that lowers is cap number fairly significantly.

We're signing JAck Shit

You just described this FA class.

Pretty sure I don't want the Chiefs to be over-spending on what's available.

Haven't we just overspent on our own?

You might be able to make that argument stick had we franchise tagged Poe, but we didn't so you can't.

I don't consider what the Chiefs have done over-spending. Berry got paid, but arguably merits what he got. Same with Sorenson. More valuable to the Chiefs than anyone else.....

Northman said that he didn't want to overspend on FAs

If the FA market would have been overspending and we gave market-rate contracts to our own guys, then?

just sayin'

There is no ****ing way that we didn't overspend for LDT and Sorenson.

Now apparently this year's market is all about overspending.

So we just overspent on our guys just like you didn't want to overspend on other FAs.

I'm really not sure what the problem is. Like I said, Dorsey appears to be signing his guys based on what he feels their potential could be, in other words - he's signing them to team friendly deals before they hit their peak potential. Give it another season and some other team could possibly swoop in and steal our home grown talent after they put up solid seasons.

after most everyone bitched about not getting Houston and Berry locked up a year earlier I can't believe people are complaining now.

If Sorenson had hit the open market this year I bet he would have gotten $5M per easy, and probably $6M per year in the end. He would have been one of the top guys hitting the market at S.

Yeah, seriously.

Look at it like that - Dorsey learned his lesson with Houston and is adjusting accordingly.

Remember when everyone got a boner about possibly bringing in Hugh Douglas?

Good FA times.

We put out the green M&M's on his tour of Arrowhead and everything, just for him. **** that guy.

If you're ok with giving 5 million per to Parker and 4 million per to Sorenson then enjoy.

This year's draft has an elite group of secondary players, talented and deep. We probably could have upgraded over Sorenson somewhere between the 3rd-5th round.

I guess I just don't understand why we are paying big for secondary players when it's a great secondary draft.

Because they're vets and already familiar with the system. And maybe Ke'vaire Russell spooked them a touch last year, who knows?

I have zero issue with them throwing bucks at the defensive backfield, none. Especially when you consider how NFL offenses are basically two steps away from being Run N Shoot offenses anymore. Get all the competent guys back there you can.

It's just a 2 year commitment to him with his guaranteed money and gives us a chance to find a gem and develop. I really like Parker but with his age and 2018 cap hit, I think they part ways knowing a team will sign him and we'll cash in on a 4th round comp pick by doing so.

As long as he keeps it to legit Chiefs news, I have no issue with him posting stuff. If we had someone else doing it regularly, that would be one thing, but as it is KnowMo (or whatever we're calling him these days) has done more to generate discussion around here the past couple weeks than anyone, and it's hard to come up with an argument that that's a bad thing.

Like i said earlier I really appreciate it, is not like he's even being an ass about anything. I'm not sure why anyone would complain.

I tried to talk tribal warfare into going back to doing it, but I think all the assholes ruined him on that.

Great, we got all our Jags locked up long-term so we don't need to be bothered drafting from the best secondary group in a decade or more.

This draft has a great tightend group too. So should I expect our plan is to avoid that position at all cost as well?

Great WR class a few years ago and we didn't draft a WR then either.

Great plan :thumb:

Dorsey will figure it out. He surprised us last year with the Howard deal, Schwartz, and finding Reek/Jones. He's got a full set of picks plus 3 comps this year... time to feast!

Easy, Laz. The WR class in 2014 was a mistake, because we only had Dwayne Bowe on the downhill slide.

If the Chiefs don't draft a single secondary player this year (which I think is unlikely), it wouldn't be near as big of a deal because they have good talent there already. I still think they take a CB sometime, though.