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Originally Posted by jjchieffan
I've read several times about the cost of the franchise tag being too high. Why does that keep being said? It's less than $20M for DT or pass rushers. That's way less than he's counting against the cap this season. I think that the second tag rule applies because he was tagged on his last contract. But even then, it's not that high. His base salary, if I'm not mistaken, is $19.5M. the rest of his cap number is prorated signing bonus. So, his cap number would be under $24M. Who wouldn't trade at that price? That's about what the top DT's not named Donald are getting. And, the Chiefs could afford to keep him considering that his cap number would be lower than it is this year. Am I missing something?
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It's how the franchise tag is worded. If he was franchised next year, then he'd be making ~ $33 mil for the season. It says it in the article below.
https://www.si.com/nfl/chiefs/news/k...n-new-contract
So his cap hit this year is $28 mil this year and next year it'd be $33ish mil. That's $61 mil in cap hits over 2 years, so 2 yrs $61 mil. He's got some leverage unless the Chiefs are willing to tag and trade. Who knows what they plan on doing. I just hope they can meet somewhere around $28 mil/yr and he stays until he retires. He's probably asking for $30 mil/yr and the Chiefs are saying $25 mil or maybe they're willing to do the $30 mil, but they want to add in a huge last year inflated number that he probably wouldn't see. I don't think he's ok with that because if you look at the big defensive contracts none of them are structured like that.