Kansas City wasn’t concerned within the Texans’ Sunday-morning strikes, however they may have an effect on the group.
On Sunday morning, the Houston Texans had been concerned in two huge strikes that reverberated all through the NFL. First, the group accomplished a contract extension for its left sort out Laremy Tunsil. Almost concurrently, we realized that the group was buying and selling its vast receiver Brandin Cooks to the Dallas Cowboys.
These two strikes are of curiosity to the Kansas City Chiefs (and their followers) in not less than 3 ways:
1. Tunsil isn’t coming to the Chiefs
Before Kansas City signed sort out Jawaan Taylor to a four-year, $80 million contract, there have been experiences that the Chiefs had been curious about buying and selling for Tunsil to interchange their free-agent left sort out Orlando Brown Jr., who has now been signed a four-year, $64 million contract with the Cincinnati Bengals. Even after Taylor was signed, these Tunsil-to-Kansas-City rumors continued. They could now be put to relaxation.
2. The league’s left sort out market has been reset
According to experiences, Tunsil’s extension is for three years and $75 million, together with a $30 million signing bonus, $50 million absolutely assured and $60 million in whole ensures. With a contract value $25 million per 12 months, that makes Tunsil the league’s highest-paid sort out. This is sweet information for the Chiefs, who now have Taylor dedicated to 4 years at 20% under the highest of the market. As lengthy as Taylor performs at a excessive stage (whether or not it’s at left or proper sort out) his contract can be a very good deal. It is dangerous information for Brown, whose contract is now 36% under the league’s high deal at his place. That’s a good distance from being the league’s best-paid sort out.
3. The Cowboys are out on big-name vast receivers
Dallas (together with the Chiefs, New York Jets, Baltimore Ravens and Buffalo Bills) has been among the many groups reported to have been curious about free-agent vast receiver Odell Beckham Jr. After buying and selling a 2023 fifth and 2024 sixth-round choose to amass Cooks — who will value the Cowboys $12.4 million towards the cap this season and $16.4 million in 2024 — it appears much less doubtless that Dallas can be competing towards Kansas City (and every other groups) for Beckham’s companies. While we don’t have a powerful learn on the Chiefs’ exact stage of curiosity within the eight-year NFL veteran, the Cowboys’ doubtless exit from this season’s OBJ Sweepstakes most likely reduces Beckham’s potential value.
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