{"id":17306,"date":"2025-03-13T11:49:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T11:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=17306"},"modified":"2025-03-13T11:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T11:50:33","slug":"breaking-news-chiefs-tender-2-restricted-free-agents-re-sign-another-reserve-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=17306","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS : \ud83d\udd25 Chiefs Make Key Moves: Tender 2 Restricted Free Agents & Re-Sign a Key Reserve! What\u2019s Next? \ud83d\udc40"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the NFL\u2019s 2025 league year opened on Wednesday, a slew of the Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 roster moves became official.<\/p>\n

The league also released a list of players who received restricted free agent tenders from NFL teams. Two Kansas City players were among the 13 who became restricted free agents: cornerback Nazeeh Johnson and linebacker Jack Cochrane. Both players received a right of first refusal<\/strong><\/em> tender.<\/p>\n

This move offers each player a $3.3 million salary for the coming season. Should either sign a contract with another team, the Chiefs would have the right to match the offer \u2014 but would receive no compensation if they allow the player to walk.<\/p>\n

Johnson was the Chiefs\u2019 seventh-round selection out of Marshall in the 2022 NFL Draft. Unlike several teammates, he did not have a year left on his original contract, because he was waived after his rookie training camp before being re-signed to the roster shortly afterward. After missing the 2023 season with a torn ACL suffered in training camp, Johnson started six Chiefs games in 2024.<\/p>\n

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Cochrane signed with Kansas City as an undrafted free agent from South Dakota in 2022. Over three seasons, he has developed into one of the team\u2019s most dependable special teams players. Cochrane\u2019s 2024 season was cut short by a fractured ankle he sustained in Week 16.<\/p>\n

This writer recently predicted that the Chiefs would not offer any of its pending restricted free agents a contract tender \u2014 mainly due to the high cost of even the lowest tender. While the team saw it differently, Cochrane and Johnson are far from locked into the roster at their higher-than-expected salaries.<\/p>\n

This is because restricted free agent tenders are not guaranteed. While Kansas City will have immediate salary cap obligations to both players, neither will be paid any money until the first regular-season game. They will compete with new faces at their respective positions in this summer\u2019s training camp.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also possible that the Chiefs could still negotiate a lower compensation with either player. In 2021, tackle Andrew Wylie was set to play for Kansas City as a restricted free agent \u2014 then at a cost of $2.1 million. But after the league\u2019s roster cutdown day, Wylie agreed to a reduced salary to guarantee his place on the team \u2014 thereby avoiding competition from hundreds of recently-released players.<\/p>\n

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Chiefs offered right of first refusal tenders on CB Nazeeh Johnson and LB Jack Cochrane. Those are contract offers of $3.263 million for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Restricted free agents not offered tenders: TE Peyton Hendershot, CB Keith Taylor and K Spencer Shrader.<\/p>\n

— Matt Derrick (@mattderrick) March 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n