Report:Chiefs looking to trade Up in Draft

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Shields68

Just not seeing them trade Smith at this point. First, there is no FA's you can spend the 22 million on. Second, it would open up another hole in the line and 3rd it would need to be done prior to the draft and that team would need to make sure Smith is going to sign long term. So really it would need to happen like yesterday. I do not see Smith being an easy contract.

No, but you could put that money to use on extensions for McDuffie and Karlaftis. Maybe even Chenal if there's any left and he's interested in the discussion (I probably wouldn't be in his shoes -- his markets going to be awfully tough to gauge so I'd want to test it if I were him).

I believe the bonus money would need to be factored into this season's cap even if the final year of the rookie deal remains unchanged.

I mean I guess I don't specifically recall since we NEVER seem to sign our extension eligible guys before they finish out their walk year anymore....

Still completely bizarre to me that we didn't get this done with Smith last season if we're suddenly interested in doing it now. We learned nothing we didn't already know and simply cost ourselves a lot more money.

This has been handled pretty poorly by Veach.