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.