The Kansas City Chiefs created a little cap space to give themselves some breathing room during free agency.
According to ESPN’s Field Yates, the Chiefs have restructured the contract of Joe Thuney. They’ve converted a portion of his $13.9 million base salary for the 2022 NFL season into a signing bonus, which clears over $9.6 million in cap space.
This brings Thuney’s cap number for the 2022 NFL seasons down to about $8 million. The bonus money is now prorated over the life of the contract, meaning that Thuney’s cap number will go up in each of the three years remaining on his contract. In 2023, for instance, Thuney’s cap number will now be around $22 million for Kansas City when it was set to be $19 million prior to the restructure.
