The Kansas City Chiefs have a total of four players who are exclusive rights free agents heading into 2022.
Exclusive rights free agents are players with at least two or fewer accrued years of service in the NFL and an expiring contract. To accrue a season, players must be on a team’s roster for six or more regular-season games during that year. They’re not required to be active for those games, merely on the roster.
In order to retain an exclusive rights free agent, the Chiefs only need to extend a qualifying offer (tender) of a one-year minimum salary. Once a team extends a qualifying offer, players aren’t allowed to negotiate with other teams once free agency begins. If they don’t extend a qualifying offer, said players will become unrestricted free agents at the onset of the free agency period.
Below we’ll take a look at each of the Chiefs’ four exclusive rights free agents and predict whether they’ll be tendered a contract offer:
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