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Originally Posted by RunKC
It’s a 3 year deal. Not gonna keep us from locking up Bolton or Creed
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And honestly, we shouldn’t care.
Jones is a game-wrecking pass rusher who lifts the tide of the entire defensive line.
Even keeping the best C and MLb in the game is less important than that.
If this deal is 5/160 on paper (what it’s sounding like) the Chiefs have threaded the needle on keeping their star defender on board without doing something astronomical on his salary.
Yes, $95M guaranteed is a huge number, but how much of that is signing bonus and how much hits years 4 and 5 and is not real? I think most would sign up for having Jones over the next 3 years for an average cap hit of $28.3M dollars, which is what the deal is if it’s a $25M signing bonus with $95M guaranteed years 1-3.
The penalty is some dead cap in years 4 and 5. And maybe more down the road if they bonus out money for cap space in 25 or 26.
I mean, if the cap just jumps over the next 2 years what it has has jumped this year, by the time you’d potentially be looking at a $5M dead cap charge in 27, you’re talking about dead cap space of like 1.6 percent of the cap. Negligible.