When the new league year begins at 3 p.m. on March 14, cap relief will come quickly for the cash-strapped Chiefs, who stand to sit roughly $20 million under their adjusted salary cap of $179.8 million for 2018 once two trades are finalized and multiple players are released.
“It reminds me of the Jets when John Idzik took over (in 2013), that they had some natural exit points on contracts, so what seemed to be a dire situation actually was easily solvable,” former agent and salary-cap expert Joel Corry said. “We’ve seen (the Chiefs) have already started to do that.