Chiefs tagging Trey Smith

[Sassy Squatch]

Chiefs have informed Pro-Bowl guard Trey Smith that he will be franchise tagged, per source.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) February 27, 2025

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

A one year deal isn’t the worst thing as I’d love to see if we can find a way to address Guard some other much cheaper way. Get a year out of Trey and buy time to find some young talent at the position. If the extra year helps us save long term cash it’s worth it

One year of Trey is going to cost $23 million against the cap.

That's $21.5 million more than we paid him last year.

It's going to hamper action in FA unless they've just decided to sit this FA period out. That said, they've got several of their OWN FA's they have to make decisions on.

[OKchiefs]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

A one year deal isn’t the worst thing as I’d love to see if we can find a way to address Guard some other much cheaper way. Get a year out of Trey and buy time to find some young talent at the position. If the extra year helps us save long term cash it’s worth it

Hamstringing yourself with very little chance now at adequately addressing left tackle and paying almost $90 million in 2025 on an OL that looked like the worst in the league in the Super Bowl sounds like brilliant team building strategy

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by TEX

But they don't, so they feel that they need to go with the costly sure thing.

Agreed. Hard to argue with the result. But one of the downsides of trying to fill every single role on both sides of the ball is that you miss opportunities to plug low positional value players with cheap but quality replacements. I’d say the same for ILB. And ultimately RB. I’d be fine if these were examples of 3 positions where we find draft value and save us a boatload of cash

[Sassy Squatch]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

A one year deal isn’t the worst thing as I’d love to see if we can find a way to address Guard some other much cheaper way. Get a year out of Trey and buy time to find some young talent at the position. If the extra year helps us save long term cash it’s worth it

What? No, that's ****ing lunacy. 80 million in cap eaten up by 3 OL that would all be gone after the 2025 season.

[suzzer99]

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19

There's articles out there right now from teams who were hoping to land Smith that are uh... less than pleased.

A second round pick should do it I think.

[Coochie liquor]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Wouldn't surprise me if this is a result of them thinking Kingsley is just a total bust.

Yet another wasted second round pick! Hooray!

[PHOG]

That's a lot of moolah for the IOL. Might have to break out the void year game.

[Gary Cooper]

Originally Posted by comochiefsfan

Great.

What is the plan at left tackle?

Maybe Smith's arms will grow.

[ThrobProng]

Can this piece of shit play left tackle?

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin

One year of Trey is going to cost $23 million against the cap.

That's $21.5 million more than we paid him last year.

It's going to hamper action in FA unless they've just decided to sit this FA period out. That said, they've got several of their OWN FA's they have to make decisions on.

Id rather go back in time and finding a young replacement who we are confident could replace him. But barring that, I am a big subscriber that if the choice is to overpay for the rights to cut bait early versus paying a more modest but huge contract to a guy you may not necessarily need? Yeah I’m ok with overpaying. We can find creative ways to move other people’s money around. Mahomes is the obvious target.

[Sassy Squatch]

Originally Posted by Coochie liquor

Yet another wasted second round pick! Hooray!

Draft classes of 2023 and 2024 are looking pretty brutal right now. Veach absolutely has to get his shit together on that front or the window starts narrowing real quick.

[Yo Murphy.]

Insert Larry David vacillating gif.

[Gary Cooper]

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19

There's articles out there right now from teams who were hoping to land Smith that are uh... less than pleased.

Are teams really dying to throw big money at a FA Guard?

I mean which contending team needs a guard as their final piece and can throw that kind of money around? Conversely, which rebuilding team should blow that kind of money on a position that isn't necessary for rebuilding?

[Mecca]

Originally Posted by Gary Cooper

Are teams really dying to throw big money at a FA Guard?

I mean which contending team needs a guard as their final piece and can throw that kind of money around? Conversely, which rebuilding team should blow that kind of money on a position that isn't necessary for rebuilding?

Bad teams sure, like Chicago probably would, but they aren't gonna move picks to do it.

[smithandrew051]

Originally Posted by Coochie liquor

Yet another wasted second round pick! Hooray!

Chiefs second round picks since 2019:

Hardman
Thornhill
Willie Gay
Nick Bolton
Creed Humphrey
Skyy Moore
Bryan Cook
Rashee Rice
Kingsley Suamataia

Probably too early to say with Kingsley, but I see one bad pick among the rest (Skyy Moore). The rest were at least competent NFL players who contributed.

That’s a pretty good batting average in the second round.