Just confirmed with the agent that Travis Kelce’s contract is not an extension through 2027, but rather a renegotiated 2-year contract that replaces the final two seasons of his previous deal in KC.
Kelce was set to earn $30.25M, but can now bag $34.25M, $17M of which is… https://t.co/gJtZ31JmT6
Originally Posted by 493rd:
Fantastic offseason for sure! Glad to see 87 will be with KC through the end. Seeing him in any other jersey just wouldn’t be right.
Originally Posted by Womble:
The fact that AJ Brown gets paid nearly twice as much as Kelce is a joke. It's not that tight ends are paid too little and is more that WRs are paid double what they should be. Jerry JAG Jeudy is on more than Kelce :-)
When did the WR market inflate like this? The Adams contract?
It seems like it only takes 1 blockbuster contract (and the cap rising every year) to fuck up the market. [Reply]
Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501:
The Chiefs just signed a 34 year old whose showing signs of wear and tear to the highest contract at his position
And yet I feel like he's still criminally underpaid
Yeah, agreed 100%. If he were a WR with his numbers, he'd be getting over $20 million/yr AAV easy peasy. As a TE, he's deserved to be the highest paid at his position for years now. If Veach/Hunt had decided to pay him $20 million/yr AAV for his last two seasons, I'd have been fine with that. [Reply]
Doesn’t seem like much of a raise for his reception and yardage contribution. Heck, his girlfriend makes more in a couple days work than his entire pay raise. [Reply]
Originally Posted by trndobrd:
Doesn’t seem like much of a raise for his reception and yardage contribution. Heck, his girlfriend makes more in a couple days work than his entire pay raise.
It’s a 20% raise. They could have left it alone. The market sucks for tight ends, but it’s a pretty valuable weapon if you can take advantage of it like New England did with Gronk and Kansas City is doing with Kelce. [Reply]
So Kelce was on contract for two more years but now hes on contract for 4 more years? Im not exactly sure I knew if he had 1 or 2 years left on his current contract...would like to clarify but going forward he's under contract for 3 or 4 more years? [Reply]
Originally Posted by BWillie:
So Kelce was on contract for two more years but now hes on contract for 4 more years? Im not exactly sure I knew if he had 1 or 2 years left on his current contract...would like to clarify but going forward he's under contract for 3 or 4 more years?
He was under contract for 2 more years. Now he's still under contract for 2 more years, but he's got more guarantees and a little pay bump.
As far as I can tell, the "extension" talk was a complete misinterpretation, though it's possible that was caused by some void years or something weird like that. The actual contract hasn't been filed as far as I've seen. [Reply]
