{"id":75,"date":"2024-10-25T15:48:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T15:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2024-10-25T15:48:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T15:48:27","slug":"breaking-chiefs-cap-space-move-could-signal-more-trade-deadline-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Chiefs\u2019 Cap Space Move Could Signal More Trade Deadline Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2173828822-e1729865757911.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2173828822-e1729865757911.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2173828822-e1729865757911.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2173828822-e1729865757911.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Chiefs\u2019 Cap Space Move Could Signal More Trade Deadline Activity\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Getty Kansas City Chiefs right tackle Jawaan Taylor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trading for wideout DeAndre Hopkins meant that the Kansas City Chiefs had very little cap space remaining after the blockbuster move. However, the team freed up some cap space on October 25 by restructuring starting right tackle Jawaan Taylor\u2018s contract by converting his salary into a signing bonus, which created $5.3 million in cap space, according to ESPN\u2019s Field Yates.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With cap space tight after the DeAndre Hopkins trade, the Chiefs restructured the contract of OT Jawaan Taylor by converting salary into a signing bonus, creating $5.3M in 2024 room.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Field Yates (@FieldYates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FieldYates\/status\/1849786103655539007?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"ca62239402b9b8c4b341e506ec3b0c8d\">\n<div>\n<article>With cap space tight after the DeAndre Hopkins trade, the Chiefs restructured the contract of OT Jawaan Taylor by converting salary into a signing bonus, creating $5.3M in 2024 room.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With three of the team\u2019s top receivers (Rashee Rice, Hollywood Brown, JuJu Smith-Schuster) and starting cornerback Jaylen Watson all dealing with injuries, there\u2019s a chance that Kansas City might continue to add talent to its roster ahead of the NFL trade deadline, which is on Tuesday, November 5. Freeing up cap space in-season allows the two-time defending Super Bowl champions the flexibility to do that.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Chiefs Prepping for Revenge Game Against Raiders<\/h2>\n<p>Kansas City\u2019s Week 8 game is against the division-rival Las Vegas Raiders, who beat the Chiefs 20-17 at Arrowhead Stadium on Christmas Day the last time the two teams played each other. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes remembers that game being a wake-up call for himself and his teammates.<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI think more than anything, more than even the play on the field, I think it was just a wakeup call for us to know that we\u2019re not going to be able to just come to the game and win,\u201d Mahomes said during his media availability on October 23. \u201cWe kind of battled through the year and it was like everybody was just kind of \u2014 we were just trying to build \u2013 especially, I feel like myself, we were just building for the playoffs. We weren\u2019t even worried about the regular season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Andy-Reid15-e1729704868386.jpg?quality=65&amp;\" alt=\"Chiefs Restructure Jawaan Taylor's Contract to Free Up Cap Space\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you\u2019ve seen that mentality since then is the guys are really taking every single practice and getting the best out of it so that every single week, we can play our best football and if we don\u2019t play our best football, we try to get better that next week. I think that\u2019s translated into this season. We\u2019re continuing to get better as the season goes on and that\u2019s how you have to play in the NFL \u2013 and it\u2019s still early, but I feel like we\u2019ve had a great start to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Chiefs Facing a Broken Down Raiders Team<\/h2>\n<p>Heading into the Week 8 matchup, the Chiefs are undefeated and are in first place in the AFC West with a 6-0 record. Meanwhile, the Raiders are in last place in the division with a 2-5 record.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the regular season, Las Vegas has dealt with substantial changes to its starting lineup on both sides of the football. That includes but is not limited to trading away star wideout Davante Adams, benching quarterback Gardner Minshew and placing backup QB Aidan O\u2019Connell on injured reserve due to a thumb injury, and losing defensive tackle Christian Wilkins indefinitely due to a Jones fracture in his foot.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s yet another down year for a Las Vegas squad that can\u2019t seem to get out of its own way from an organizational standpoint. But that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s an easy matchup for the Chiefs, as the Raiders always give them trouble no matter the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs-Raiders game will take place at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday, October 27 at 3:25 p.m. Central Time and will be available to watch on CBS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs restructured starting RT Jawaan Taylor&#8217;s contract to free up cap space after trading for WR DeAndre Hopkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kansas-city-chiefs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Chiefs\u2019 Cap Space Move Could Signal More Trade Deadline Activity - 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