USAT: Chiefs Wire audio clip

USAT: Chiefs Wire

Mar 7, 2022

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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