Chiefs' Financial GAMBIT with Trey Smith | Will This Bold Move Lead to More Championships?
Locked On Chiefs - Daily Podcast On The Kansas City Chiefs
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🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Kansas Chiefs made Trace Smith the highest paid guard in the NFL today on Locked-on Chiefs. |
| 0:07.4 | From the land of the three and the home of the Chiefs, this is the Locked-on Chiefs podcast. |
| 0:15.7 | Hey, Chiefs, welcome back for another episode, Locked-on Chiefs, your daily podcast, covered in Kansas City Chiefs, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every single day. Thank you for making Locked-on Chiefs your first list in the day. Don't forget we're free and available on all platforms, including YouTube as well. I'm your host, Chris Clark from Chief's Corner. There's a lot to talk about when it comes to what is just going on in Kansas City. |
| 0:38.9 | Kansas City had the lone franchise tag player headed into the franchise tag deadline. |
| 0:44.8 | They got him signed to a long-term massive extension for a guard. |
| 0:49.9 | And it's going to be something that we're going to have to talk about. |
| 0:52.4 | We're going to get into the salary cap implications of what this means for Kansas City for the future and for this year. |
| 1:00.0 | How does it shift in possibly the way that they're going to do deals? |
| 1:05.4 | And he does, and Trace Smith does become the highest paid guard in the NFL with his contract |
| 1:10.5 | and an average of $23.5 million per year. |
| 1:14.7 | That is by far the highest in the NFL at the guard position. |
| 1:19.2 | And that's one of the things we're going to talk about and focus on today on Locked on Chiefs. |
| 1:23.7 | Today's episode is brought to you by Fandul. |
| 1:26.9 | Right now, new customers get $150 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet win. So go check out Fandual. We really do appreciate their sponsorship. There is a ton to talk about when it comes to this Trace Smith deal. A lot of money going to Tray Smith, four years, $94 million, a lot more than I ever expected |
| 1:46.5 | that they would be paying him. |
| 1:48.5 | But they got the deal done, and that's what's important. |
| 1:51.0 | That's what really matters right now. |
| 1:52.7 | So when you start looking at how this is going to break down, he's 26 years old. |
| 1:58.0 | He will be 30 when this deal ends. |
| 2:00.3 | And there is going to be some talk about |
| 2:02.2 | did they overpay him. When you look at the rest of the NFL guard market, he is 2.5 million |
| 2:07.4 | above the next highest paid guard in the NFL. So it is very easy to look at this and say |
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