This is the first in a series of 2023 pre-draft explorations, looking across the NFL to see what offseason moves worked - and which didn’t - in an attempt get a better handle on effective roster building.
During the 2022 offseason, Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs were faced with some tough decisions. Having signed Patrick Mahomes to a massive ($45M AAV), 10-year extension in 2020, the team saw that the bills would be coming due very soon. Mahomes’ cap hit in 2022 was $36M, and would increase to $47M in 2023, and hover in that range until around 2031.