Since the second week of March, Kansas City Chiefs general manager Brett Veach has signed 11 players for 2022 — and completed a significant contract restructure with defensive end Frank Clark that cleared $12.6 million in cap space, turning a player who was almost universally believed to be a surefire cap casualty into someone being paid an acceptable amount of money.
In most of these deals — which began with placing the franchise tag on left tackle Orlando Brown Jr. on March 7 — Veach has held to form, using every possible advantage (and sometimes thinking outside the box) to get the maximum benefit out of every salary-cap dollar.