Initial feelings on the NFL Draft through the lens of Kansas City’s needs.

With the NFL Scouting Combine approaching next week, it’s time to shift to draft coverage. So far, I’ve mainly studied prospects who are likely top-50 picks, but after watching college football every Saturday, reading from experts and doing some of my own work, I’m ready to talk about this class.

To get you ready for draft coverage and the combine, I thought it’d be a helpful start for me to share some overall takes on the class. We’ll have some more extensive coverage later, but in...

Keep em’ or let em’ walk out the door. I make the call for the Chiefs’ offensive free agents.

With free agency less than a month away, the Kansas City Chiefs have loads of decisions to make about players who are set to walk out the door. At the time of this writing, we estimate that the Chiefs have between $4.8 and $8.8 million in cap space.

This number is likely to change. Kansas City will surely make a few moves to free up some cap space before free agency officially begins on March 12.

*Today we are focusing primarily...

These positions should be prioritized in Kansas City this spring.

It’s time for the Kansas City Chiefs to pick themselves up from the dirt and heal the wounds that led to the disaster in Super Bowl LIX. The 2024 season was not a failure, but the adversity the team overcame until the ultimate game highlighted areas for necessary improvement heading into 2025.

Here are the Chiefs’ top five positions of need for the 2025 offseason. It starts with the obvious:

1. Left tackle

One way or another, the Chiefs need a better plan for left tackle in 2025 than...

Brett Veach will need to do some heavy lifting to get Kansas City back on top.

On Wednesday, we learned that the NFL’s salary cap for the 2025 season will be set between $277.5 million and $281.5 million. The limit will increase by at least $22 million from 2024. Most contract reporting websites had previously assumed a $275 million figure for the coming season.

The Kansas City Chiefs were likely thrilled with the news. At Arrowhead Pride, we now estimate the team’s cap space will be between $4.8 and $8.8 million. While a clearer picture of the team’s finances will...

Chiefs headlines for Thursday, February 20

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Seven men charged for alleged roles in robberies targeting Mahomes, Kelce, other athletes’ homes | The Athletic

The individuals — Pablo Zuniga Cartes, Ignacio Zuniga Cartes, Bastian Jimenez Freraut, Jordan Quiroga Sanchez, Bastian Orellano Morales, Alexander Huiaguil Chavez, and Sergio Ortega Cabello — are members of a South American theft group, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in Tampa on Tuesday. The group members range in age from 20 to 38. They were charged with conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property, according to the complaint.

Each...

Over the last two years, the NFL has increased its cap by a total of $53 million.

On Wednesday, the NFL notified teams around the league about the salary cap increase expected for the 2025 season.

According to ESPN’s Dan Graziano, the cap will rise to somewhere in the range of $277.5 million to $281.5 million — making for an increase of at least $22.1 million from the 2024 season.

The salary cap management tracker Spotrac currently sees the Chiefs spending around $275 million, which means that (at the time of this writing) they are projected to have an estimated...

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Last week, four Kansas City players were signed to deals with new NFL teams.

As NFL teams continue to assemble their 90-man rosters for 2025, a total of four Kansas City Chiefs from the 2024 season have recently been signed to new teams.

RB Clyde Edwards-Helaire

The most familiar is the veteran running back that Kansas City waived from its active roster in mid-December. After he cleared waivers, Edwards-Helaire was then signed to the New Orleans Saints’ practice squad, from which he was elevated to appear in two late-season games, gaining 70 yards on 16 touches. It looks like the...

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The Chiefs aren’t in “cap hell,” but there’s work to do to keep it that way

By Jared Sapp

The weeks between the Super Bowl officially closing the season and the NFL Scouting Combine opening the offseason are primed for hot takes as outlets struggle to find relevant content.

A popular take circulating around social media...

Chiefs headlines for Wednesday, February 19

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$66 million cap number means the Chiefs will need to re-do Patrick Mahomes’s deal, soon | NBC Sports

As the Chiefs finish the third straight season of playing as late into the calendar as possible, they once again have limited time to take care of early-offseason business.

At the top of the stack is the future of tight end Travis Kelce, whose retirement would create both a giant hole in the starting lineup but $17.3 million in cap space.

Not far beneath Item A is the...

NFL draft preparation season is officially in full swing.

On Monday, the Kansas City Chiefs were one (of 32) teams at the HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Combine held at the Ochsner Sports Performance Center in Metairie, Louisiana.

Similar to the Chiefs and the University of Kansas Sports Medicine and Performance Center, the New Orleans Saints have team offices, indoor and outdoor practice fields and training areas at that facility.

Chiefs national reporter Steve Wyche served as NFL Network’s on-site correspondent on the ground on Monday.

Wyche highlighted five player performances:

• **Jacksonville State running back Irv Mulligan...

Kansas City’s successful 2022 draft class is set to cost a bit more.

As we begin to look at estimates for the Kansas City Chiefs’ 2025 salary cap, figures for three members of the team’s vaunted 2022 draft class stand out.

Heading into the final seasons of their rookie contracts, linebacker Leo Chenal and cornerback Joshua Williams are each set to make base salaries of $3.2 million in 2025, while cornerback Jaylen Watson will earn $3.1 million. (For reference, running back Isiah Pacheco will earn a base salary of only $1.1 million — the minimum for players with three accrued...