The Chiefs have yet to make a contract offer offer to franchise-tagged defensive tackle Chris Jones, NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero tweets. The two sides have had talks, but nothing has been put on the table just yet.
By putting the franchise tag on Jones, the Chiefs have him tendered on a one-year, $16.1MM deal. Meanwhile, he’s been pushing for a longer and more lucrative commitment – one that’s worth upwards of $20MM per year. From here, the two sides have until July 15th to work out a long-term deal and, ideally, that’s what the Chiefs want to do, ESPN.com’s Adam Schefter (Twitter link) believes. Of course, it’ll come down to numbers, but Schefter’s sense is that the Chiefs are not looking to trade him.
The Chiefs’ have limited flexibility to work with, given the other stars already on the books for 2020 and beyond. They did carve out a little bit of space by revising Sammy Watkins‘ contract, but that only left them with about $5MM in breathing room.
Last year, Jones held out from the Chiefs in hopes of getting the deal he wanted. Now that he’s coming off of his first Pro Bowl campaign, you can expect his camp to crank things up a notch.
“It’s like a mix of emotions,” Jones said after he was tagged this year. “Because you figure, you know, after four years, you do everything the right way, within the team way, you try to stay under the line, out of trouble, and be a good citizen for a team and for the city, you expect to be rewarded….It’s like, ‘Man, what else you want me to do?’”
Jones, who won’t turn 26 into July, wants to get paid one way or another.
Time to go Belicheat and trade him. Let him play for a couple of million more somewhere he has NO CHANCE of winning. Enjoy your $$$ Chris. You have ZERO CLUE like it is like to live in the REAL WORLD.
Sure, no clue at all. If anything, he’s overcompensating for the past.
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Trade him now very over priced plus not the greatest player
His 2019 PFF grade of 84.9 was his lowest since his rookie year. Can’t speak to how overpriced he is (he’s tied for 8th among interior defenders, that is, 4-3 DT’s and 3-4 DT’s and DE’s), and he may not be the greatest, but he seems to be in the right neighborhood now. $20 mil per year sounds like it would be questionable, though.
Simply put the chiefs can’t afford him so they haven’t offered him a deal, out they don’t want to lose him so they tagged him. But ultimately Jones just wants to or paid.
Hard market for DE, Clowney was seeking big $$ and didn’t get it and same with Jones so far.