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Perhaps this comes down to that final year with a bunch of non-guaranteed money to artificially inflate the contract to the AAV Chris Jones wants. I think the Chiefs would do that just like they were going to do that with the contract they offered Orlando Brown Jr, but perhaps Chris Jones isn't willing to accept that. Perhaps he wants a "true" 30M AAV extension that isn't artificially inflated by the final year of the extension. I'd bet the Chiefs would do the former (with the last year artificially inflating that AAV to 30M even though Chris Jones wouldn't see the final year of that deal), but they won't do the latter. Such a deal would tie the Chiefs hands behind their backs in terms of having enough salary cap space to extend other players they want to extend and for flexibility for free agents in the future.
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