I agree with all of that. It’s all reasonable and well within Veach’s means.

I don’t love paying Bolton, but I also don’t want to go back to the pre-Bolton days. Again, opportunity cost. If you put resources somewhere besides LB, expect LB to be worse.

Could be totally different if we had a Jaden Hicks level player waiting in the wings at LB. But not only do we not, also Tranquill needs to be more consistent or he may not even be back in 2026.

I don’t think Bolton can get enough money on the open market to make us give him an astronomically bad contract so I’ll assume he sticks around and then we don’t have to worry about LB this summer unless it’s far and away a BPA.

I agree.

They drafted Bolton a year early, which made the transition pretty seamless the following year.

Just hoping for a reasonable number and a way out.

Look, I think Wanya will be a very good guard. His problem at LT is with speed rushers, and he won't have to defend the edge at guard and has run-blocking power.

He's a solid replacement for Smith.

The only issue I found with Moore in watching him is that he's a bit slow-footed and thus concedes his outside shoulder a bit, especially against speedier edges. When he loses that matchup though, he tends to do well riding the arc. It's kind of on the QB at that point to step up into the vacated area. As long as you have a solid LG next to him he seems passable. He anchors well against power. He generates good push on down blocks and gets to the second level well in the run game. Honestly, he looks like a potential stud LG if he was ever moved there. I think he'd be good competition and is a guy you could move over when Thuney is gone if he doesn't win at LT. I wouldn't hesitate to sign the guy.

If you like him, that’s plenty good for me…
Let’s kick those tires

I assume that's what we'll do. Slightly overpay Bolton, let Reid walk, as well as try and fail to sign Smith. There really aren't any LT's in free agency and the one solid guy has missed time every year outside of this year. Throwing big Free agent LT money at him is probably not very likely.

Veach has done an excellent job with the draft and I assume he will this year as well. He needs to...

If you can get him cheap-ish and he solidifies the spot for a few years, that’s a Super Bowl winning move. That will bring another Lombardi to KC in his time.

Veach is gonna cook

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Chiefs can restructure Mahomes (like every other year) and immediately have $38M in cap space. <br><br>If they extend Thuney and Kelce retires, they’d have roughly $70M and almost no dead money. <a href="https://t.co/B2YGXxny2N">https://t.co/B2YGXxny2N</a></p>&mdash; Matt Verderame (@MattVerderame) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattVerderame/status/1891632400280478036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This reeruned Bills fan mentions they can restructure Mahomes but that is "kicking the can down the road ".


What in the world does he think his Buffalo GM has been doing the last 4 years?!

Honestly, the “that’s kicking the can down the road” narrative is getting really tired. This isn’t the same as putting the groceries on your credit card. The cap is going up exponentially. The Eagles just dominated us in the SB after leveraging these tactics. Capitalize now, I don’t care what happens after Mahomes!

Yeah, his contract was written to kick the can down the road when we want, if we want. It even includes absorption years in 2028 and 2029. This Bills fan is full idiot

It's technically true but the issue is he thinks this is unique to KC.


No team with a QB making 50+ million is not pushing cap down the road right now.

Guys…. That Bills idiot is just yet another reason why if you’re still wasting time on that site, you should think long and hard about not.

It's the natural mantra of the NFL.

If you're not doing that, you're not going to have sustained success.

And despite all of the handwringing and doomsday talk, KC has been the best at this for years now.