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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
No, but you could put that money to use on extensions for McDuffie and Karlaftis. Maybe even Chenal if there's any left and he's interested in the discussion (I probably wouldn't be in his shoes -- his markets going to be awfully tough to gauge so I'd want to test it if I were him).
I believe the bonus money would need to be factored into this season's cap even if the final year of the rookie deal remains unchanged.
I mean I guess I don't specifically recall since we NEVER seem to sign our extension eligible guys before they finish out their walk year anymore....
Still completely bizarre to me that we didn't get this done with Smith last season if we're suddenly interested in doing it now. We learned nothing we didn't already know and simply cost ourselves a lot more money.
This has been handled pretty poorly by Veach.
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I think the plan was to let him walk. But any long term deal probably would have increased the cap. I mean he only made 3 million or so last year. Guessing any deal he would want a huge signing bonus and doubt the chiefs would want to go more that 4 years.
But i think after the Super Bowl, they decided on a bigger more physical line. He has probably more years of productivity than Thuney... Get a draft, still pretty much the same % of the cap towards the OLine...