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Originally Posted by dirk digler
According to Terez Paylor on Twitter Chiefs had $3.5 million in cap space and top 3 picks are going to be 4.5 mil
I feel they could have cut someone else to make up that difference
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Signing the draft choices, the top 3, is a big part of the move. They released Howard. If you look at the top players and their salary and cap # there wasn't many candidates to clear some room. The need a 5-7 mil cushion to be under the cap for injuries, potential extensions etc. there was minimal choices to restructure. Hali they don't want to redo again and he has a cap #/structure that would screw them. And DJ and Sherman already took paycuts. Harris Zombo Jah Reid...those are minimal savings. Ideally in their mind I think they would have preferred to hang onto and release next year. But tough choices have to be made and that's what successful teams do no matter if there's an emotional attachment or not. Otherwise they were facing doing something with a Smith restructure and to get them that cushion. No way that was happening but that's the choices they basically had.
Makes sense why Trip McCracken wasn't renewed as the main cap guy and Brandt Tillis was promoted plus another legal counsel/cap guy was also brought in. Ultimately that buck stops with Dorsey. But he's obviously lost confidence in Trip who when he kept him on there in '13 Dorsey praised as one of the best. So not quite ideal but once you consider all factors and lack of productivity it makes more and more sense. They were super tight against the cap with few options