Agent’s Take: What it will take for Chiefs to retain star guard Trey Smith for the foreseeable future

Many of the bowl-nation veteran players, including Cincinnati Bengals Edge Rusher Trey Hendrickson, Washington Emperors Wide receptiver Terry McLaurin and Dallas Cowboys Edge Robust Michas, in line with a new sign of the 2025. Maximum sense of necessity exists for Kansas community chiefs with unpleasant kept Trey Smith, who designated that the freedom of player at the end of February.

This is what July 15 to 4 PM and fatally for vote players to Sign MultiYear contractions. After this deadline transit, players with Franchise tags for prohibited by signing long term acts up to the end of the regular season on Jul 4, 2026.

The chief using a franchise tag on Smith was surprising. The interior offensive line rarely given to the designation.

Smith is only a fourth time of freedom designation is placed on the offensive custody during the last 10 years. Products of the solution of the leaders in both 2030 and 2021 and live. In the New England benefactor and made Joe Thuney a freedom of player in 2011. Prior to Logan Mankins in 2011.

Used in an interior line is so low, because they are not specific freedom tag amounts for the center, a guard and tackle. The same is the same as the position, which is left tackles, especially to determine the number.

Smith quickly sealed their freedom to its $ 23.402 million fully guaranteed because this number does not reflect offensive cage market. In NFL’s Supreme-paid offensive custody is landon dickerson. I signed four years, $ 84 million contract extension, averaging $ 21 million a year with Philadelphia in March 2023. Setim escalators make dickerson’s a lot worth as much as at $ 87 million.

Preside General Manager Brett Vached Intentions with Smith Clear in April in Pre-Earnings Press Conference. Vehah said: “There is no secret that we want to Trey lock.”

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Smith including leverage contract thanks in the tag amount of the leaders of the trading Thuney, the first-team all-for the left custody in both 2023 and 2024, to Chicago in March to 2026 Fourth-by pick. Thuney, who turns 33 in November, was to ask in the contract year.

Smith should be hitting an open market in 2026 absent from a great deal. The chiefs will be hard-pressed to designate Smith to freedom player for the second line of the year for the cost. Smith’s freedom tag in 2026 will be $ 28,082,400, and 120% of the current $ 23.402 million as much.

History suggests Smith would have stood a good chance to become a new salary testing for offensive guards if I could hit the open market this year. A bowl-caliber protection in the prime has reset the market in free agency several times to free free agent. It’s happened to the five occasions of soccer at 2016 with Kelechi Osemele. And another four are kevin Zeitler (2017), Andrew Norwell (2018), Thuney (2021) and Scherff (2022). Smith earned a bowl of honors in the first end of the period.

Fortunately Smith, and the chiefs have not had a problem resetting site markets with an unpleasant linen. Five years, $ 80 million contracting Thuney signed up NFL’s Supreme-paid offensive imprisonment to $ 16 million each year. Jawaan Taylor became a league of the first $ 20 million-in-year right to tackle with four years ago, $ 80 million contract have received in 2023 free agency. A deal has a $ 60 million in a promise of which $ 40 million has been fully guaranteed to signing up.

Creed Humphrey dramatically changed to pay scale for centers last preseason. I signed four years ago, $ 72 million extension, averaging $ 18 million a year. Humphrey is $ 50.315 million in promise and $ 35 million fully guaranteed to subscribe to the most regularly for the center.

Because of these factors that really don’t have in the matter or Smith will become in NFL’s Supreme-paid offensive protection if the standards long-term deal with July 15 deadline but in which a big margin. It’s up to Kansas City to offer a carpenter’s kind of multiyear contract, and make her flesh free agency next year.

Smith’s camp to view how the leaders are treated fellow offensive custody of Thuney with a united in 2021 most relevant. Thuney’s $ 16 million a year was 13.88% more than four years ago, $ 56.2 million extension, averaging $ 14.05 million years, Brandon, which was the eagles in the mid 2019 times, which was unpleasant standard in time. Making something similar to Smith didn’t put it about $ 24 million each year.

The chiefs will find the more recent dynamics, after the indianapolis massively reset the offensive Market by 21.21% with Quenton Nelson’s four-year, $ 80 million extension, averaging $ 20 million per year in 2022, to their liking. Chris Lindstrom moved on PIN 2.5% in 2023. Falcons gave Lindstrom five years, $ 102.5 million extension, averaging $ 20.5 million a year with $ 62.702 million in the guarantee, where $ 48.202 million was fully in a sign.

Dickerson got 2.43% plus Lindstrom. Keeping Smith’s line with Dickerson’s and Lindstrom’s increases would be a deal on $ 21.5 million-in-year neighborhood. What’s worth, the average increase of five free offensive guards received in the prioriyear flag with setting on the market is 9.88%. The type of growth is not put Smith right around $ 23.075 million a year.

Record-setting can also be needed to get Smith to sign a long term. Robert Hunt’s $ 63 million are the most overall promise for an offensive cage. I signed five years, $ 100 million contract, averaging $ 20 million a year with Carolina Panthers in 2023 free agency. Lindstrom’s $ 48.202 million is mark with the amount fully guaranteed to signing. Nelson’s $ 31 million is the largest signing bonus ever given to the interior offensive linean.

The chief trying to use the Utility in Smith access used with unpleasant tackle orlando Brown Jr. In 2022, with brown, given to freedom tag, not to be counterproductive at this point. Brown rejected reported six years, $ 139 million contract to freedom player a long-term dealing. You will not become a covenant’s high-paid offensive linean at $ 23,166667 per year because of high inflated year contract contains $ 44 million in 2027. The fact is a pace brown and too long. It was a really $ 95 million over five years. Instead, brown played under $ 16.662 million liberty tag.

To turn on four years, $ 86 million contract, averaging $ 21.5 million per year, Smith’s camp does not have to be confident, that you could not rule at least $ 62,598 million per year in a year in the year in the open market. That’s a break-up to this $ 21.5 million-in-year deal after playing in 2025 times under a $ 23.402 million liberty tag. The chiefs of the most player, friendly structure is probably the best bet to Smith to get a deal closer to $ 21.5 million a year than averaging in the neighborhood of $ 23.402 million freedom.