The Seven Days of Free Agency, Day 3: Offensive Line
After a disastrous Super Bowl, it s no secret that the Kansas City Chiefs need to bolster their offensive line for 2021 and beyond. Here s what this year s free agent class will have to offer.
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Mar 9, 2021
After a disastrous Super Bowl, it s no secret that the Kansas City Chiefs need to bolster their offensive line for 2021 and beyond. What will this year s free agent class have to offer?
Dependable, starting offensive lineman rarely hit free agency for the simple fact that great offensive lineman are hard to come by in the NFL. When teams pick a great offensive lineman in the draft, they usually hold on tight and don t let them leave the building. Brandon Scherff, a player who was going to be discussed in this breakdown, is a good example of this as the Washington Football Team tagged him for a second time Monday night.
Feb 28, 2021
I’ll start by saying that this, without question, almost definitely won’t happen. The number of unlikely pieces that need to fall into place for something as ludicrous as this to happen pretty much guarantees it’s just offseason speculation article fodder.
.But I’m a Chiefs fan, so when you present a worst-case scenario, my instinct is to fret about it until it doesn’t happen.
Deshaun Watson wants out of Houston. That’s probably an understatement. He wants out of Houston so badly he’d embrace a trade to the Jets. He’s a generational talent stuck in a comically incompetent organization that has zero draft capital to begin to even consider mulling over a passing thought of attempting to build a team of remotely fieldable talent around him. This has Watson so frustrated he’s demanded to be traded, which will inevitably cost whichever team he lands with the exact amount of draft capital the Texans don’t have.
Kansas City Chiefs Mock Offseason Part 1: Cap Space Creation
Despite the fact that the Kansas City Chiefs currently sit many millions over the rumored 2021 salary cap, with only a few moves, they could make the deficit disappear.
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Feb 19, 2021
Kansas City Chiefs general manager Brett Veach is going to have an unusually difficult job to do this offseason.
The 2021 salary cap will be no lower than $180 million for the upcoming season and could land a bit higher than that. Regardless of the final number, it seems all but certain that there will be a significant drop from 2020 s $198.2 million cap.
As Patrick Mahomes’ contract grows, the Kansas City Chiefs’ team-building strategies need to change.
Over the past two years, the Chiefs have heavily invested in the present when building out their roster. Resulting in a Super Bowl win and another Super Bowl appearance, it s hard to argue against this strategy up to this point. These moves consisted of aggressive moves like the trade for defensive end Frank Clark, high-dollar signings like the acquisition of wide receiver Sammy Watkins, and an organizational desire to keep the band together.
That team-building strategy might not work quite as well going forward.
This is not to say the Chiefs can t sign expensive free agents or make aggressive trades in the years to come, but the margin of error for any of these moves is going to be much tighter than it was when Mahomes was making roughly $5 million per year.