Chiefs tender Cairo Santos
 

Chiefs extended an original-pick tender to restricted free agent K Cairo Santos.

Santos won the Chiefs' kicker job as an UDFA in 2014. If he plays on the tender, he'll earn $1.797 million in 2017. Santos made a career-high 88.6 percent of his field goals last season and nailed 36-of-39 extra points.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash">#Chiefs</a> have placed an original-round tender on Cairo Santos, a source tells me. Means Chiefs can match any offer he gets or pay him $1.797M</p>&mdash; Terez A. Paylor (@TerezPaylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/TerezPaylor/status/839502236250177536">March 8, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Good deal

We set him up well on offense.

The fresh maker

How many more points did Santos score than Alice last year? And can he throw past 10 yards?

The thought of those kicker setups bring a morning pup tent to the table!

That kick in the Denver game haha

If you count TD passes as points for the QB then:

Santos: 129 pts
AS: 120 pts

If you don't:

Santos: 129 pts
AS: 30 pts

Uh, kickers generally are the higher "scorers" in the league. Passes thrown don't count so you'd need to cross the plane with the ball 22 times to top Cairo.

Does that include running TD'S too?

Doink! Never gets old...

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I'd like to see a way to extend him for 3-4 years that doesn't go too overboard. The Chiefs have put a lot into developing Santos and I'd hate to see some other team be the beneficiary of it.

He's so tender....

So he's basically on a transition tag, a cheap one at that.

I'd bet he's gone. Some team with loads of cap room might try to make him the highest paid kicker or some shit.

You better hope that doesn't happen.

McManus received an 2nd round tender as well... I think that's the path you take with kickers in today's salar cap era. Puts his # for 2017 around $2.7M, nice bump from $600k.