Mahomes is not only a smart player with skills but a good person. He benefited by sitting out a year. He had a funky passing motion and needed to learn the offense, which he had time to pick up. Reid has been amazing and is signed long term.
How do you fit players around a $45 million QB? GM Brett Veach has also done great work. Drat well, signed major contributors to long-term contracts, and renegotiate multi-year contracts to make them cap friendly.
KC has ten players signed to long-term contract - Mahomes, Hill, Kelce, Chris Jones, Matthieu, Kelce, Fisher, Schwartz, Hitchens, Butker.
Sixteen players are on rookie contracts. Two more are undrafted free agents signed this year for three years. Thirty more players will be free agents in 2021. Eighteen of those signed one year contracts - veterans who wanted to play in KC and fill out the depth chart, some contiributing in rotations in the D-Line or secondary. Watson and Demarcus Robinson, WRs, wanted to stay with KC and will be free agents and get their multi-year contracts in 2021.
KC will have eight draft choices in 2021 with two being compensatory picks. If you are a free agent with KC and do not get big contract, you have a number that are willing to sign the one year contracts to return to play.
KC next year will not have the Dead Money next year from contract with Eric Berry ($8 mill this year). A few multi-year contracts now have a Void year so they could be released next year without too much Dead money to count agains the cap.
Why Patrick Mahomes makes his home in Kansas City, not New York City
