The Kansas City Chiefs have made a lot of new additions to their roster this offseason.
Reserve/future contracts, free agency, the 2022 NFL draft and undrafted free agency have brought a throng of new players to Kansas City. That said, the offseason roster hasn’t yet reached its final form, and GM Brett Veach isn’t ruling out making new additions to the team.
The team already employed a rarely-used contract tender in order to better their chances of Melvin Ingram returning to the team. As for what comes next, Veach says the team has a plan and they’re going to remain diligent.
“We’ll be smart,” Veach told reporters. “We’ve approached this offseason with a plan and we’ve tried to remain smart in regard to thinking about the next few years. We would love to have Melvin (Ingram) back and I think we’re in position to do something along those lines.”
One hurdle for the Chiefs when it comes to going out and making a splash free-agent addition or trade is the money they currently have locked up in Orlando Brown Jr.’s franchise tag. Brown is set to make a fully-guaranteed $16.6 million in 2022 under the tag. Both sides remain interested in coming to an agreement on a long-term deal, but the structure of that deal could help inform the team’s next move.
“We’re also, hopefully, we’ll pick up the Orlando Brown talk and depending on how that goes and how that’s structured, it may allow for us to do something else or something that we’re not thinking of at this point,” Veach said. “I think we are in a position to do something small and if it makes sense, we would do it. I think in the next few weeks here the Orlando Brown contract stuff will pick up and how that turns out may guide us in another direction in regards to what we can add before the season.”
The Chiefs have until mid-July to come to an agreement on a contract extension with Brown. To this point, the major hold-up has been the lack of him having an agent. As of Veach’s…
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