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Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin
His salary (14 mil.) plus 1/3 of 21 mil. signing bonus. (7 mil.) There’s the cap hit.
Jones is franchised tagged at $16.5 mil. so there’s your $37.5 mil. right there.
Chiefs will either re-do Sammy’s deal with an extension or cut him.
Jones will get traded or a long term deal with a low first year base. Those two moves will free up a significant amount of cap space for KC. It’s just a matter of how long it takes those 2 things to get done. I can’t imagine they will let it linger past the draft.
Also, it’s pretty much a given at this point that nothing is being done with Mahomes contract until next season, which Veach and his agent originally put a 12-18 month timeline on it when discussing it before the Super Bowl. I mean, they could do something on it, but I would be surprised at this point . . . . .
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Good summary.
I believe the Watkins situation is resolved first. If KC wants to make more free agent moves, including retention of their own players, I anticipate a Watkins extension or release, and relatively soon.