Agreed. Restructuring Mahomes, especially more than a small amount, should be a last resort. If the cap exceeds $220 million and they roll over close to $4 or $5 million, cut Frank Clark, extend Chris Jones to get his cap hit down (I hope they don't wait until May or later to do this and instead get it done before free agency), and are able to either move on from Orlando Brown Jr or sign a long-term deal (so they don't have his franchise tag amount on the cap), they should have quite a bit of cap space without restructuring Mahomes much if at all. They could also restructure Joe Thuney a small amount to open up more space if they need it, as well as Kelce. They could also cut MVS if they want to extend Hardman or sign another WR aside from Juju. Every player they sign from free agency and every player they extend other than Chris Jones (or Orlando) probably won't have that much of a cap hit in 2023. Ideally, they're able to get done what they want to get done without restructuring Mahomes. It might be difficult to do that, but every year they don't touch that contract makes the following years even easier with the rising cap (which makes it easier to continue to not touch the Mahomes contract, especially while there's still dead money remaining from the previous restructure). Moving on from Orlando Brown, if he's not earning the contract he demands, would make such a plan easier to implement.

Keep JuJu if he takes 10 or so.

He's exceeded my expectations and I expected him to be our #1WR.

I like our WR core and think if Mahomes had more time, everyone would prosper.

I want to keep MVS. Like JuJu, Watson, Fortson, Hardman, Toney, Gray, Moore.

We need Oline help 1st and Edge Rusher 2nd.

10? Are you stupid? Juju isn’t accepting $10 million.

A more expensive version of Wylie doesn't sound like a very good idea to me.

Considering the team will carry 5-6, you can make an argument to take 1 in the first four rounds every year.

If you win the lottery on Hill, then you can flip for a huge gain before giving him a third contract.

A WR1 in my opinion makes us completely unbeatable. And we have to eventually prepare for a life without kelce or a lesser version of kelce. If Toney can stay healthy I can’t imagine a scenario where we want to keep hardman.

Can you imagine mahomes with a dk metcalf type sideline threat? I like our WRs but man would they cook if we moved each one of them one spot down.

Salary cap discussion brings out the dumbest in people. This thread is going to be scary.

Our WRs have always had size or speed/athleticism. I’d love to give mahomes a WR who does both.

I don't get the MVS hate either. At all. He drops a gimme every now and then, but he gets it back by making a great catch. He's made some really good contested catches on deep balls.

Like most of our WRs he is fine if we move him a notch down. He is our big play guy with the speed to go over the top. He’s our best guy to do it and he’s not crazy expensive. I’d rather that turn into more of a role than an every down thing. There are too many games where he disappears for long stretches and the games we struggle with the most are against physical defenses. He doesn’t help us there as much as I’d like.

I don’t think people have accepted the reality that we have to build around mahomes’ contract. We have to make compromises somewhere. I’d rather we keep building around our electric qb. I’d love an elite OL but functional will do just fine if we surround mahomes with playmakers. I’d love a balanced offense and defense, but I believe playmakers lessen the need for an elite defense.

We’ve gotta keep a wide window to play young draft picks and bargain basement players, and accept that solid but unspectacular play in several instances is more than ok.

I like how you think!

2 straight rings would be nice

squeak one out this year, next season a glorious coronation

Next season can be “Run It Back 2.0”!

We’ll start be re-signing Frank Clark, Andrew Wylie, and Orlando Brown!