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Salary details show Justin Watson and Blaine Gabbert might be roster locks for 2023

As often happens, it took a little while to get complete salary details for the Kansas City Chiefs’ two most recent signings: wide receiver Justin Watson and quarterback Blaine Gabbert. That information is now available.

Initial reports about Watson’s signing said that he signed a two-year, $3.5 million contract that included $1.4 million guaranteed — and not-likely-to-be-earned (NLTBE) incentives that could earn him an additional $2.5 million that would count against the 2024 and 2025 salary caps.

Until we had better data, we assumed that this meant he would carry a cap hit near $1.