The Kansas City Chiefs are set to sign former Jacksonville Jaguars OT Jawaan Taylor on a four-year contract. While they can’t officially consummate the deal until free agency opens on Wednesday, the contract numbers are already out in the wild. At face value it looks like a good contract for Kansas City, leaving the team with flexibility in 2023 and the future.
According to the folks at OverTheCap, Taylor carries a low base salary of $1.08 million in 2023, with $4.725 million in prorated bonus money and a $20K workout bonus. It brings his first-year cap hit up to $5.825 million, leaving Kansas City with somewhere around $9 million in cap space remaining for 2023. They do have several other ways to create more cap space this season, including a Chris Jones extension and a number of other restructures.
