Chiefs Tear Down Patrick Mahomes Contract and Next in Line Could Be This Super Bowl Superstar

The Kansas City Chiefs are riding high on their Super Bowl LVII glory. With the trading window commencement, teams will be looking forward to strategizing and rebuilding their rosters for the upcoming 2023 season of the NFL. But with salary cap constraints in the NFL, teams sometimes find it difficult to plan out their next line of action strategically. The Chiefs are looking forward to the trade period for a few adjustments to their Super Bowl-winning team as well. And for the cap space to not be an issue, they have made a few tweaks to the contract of their star QB, Patrick Mahomes.

The Chiefs have cleared some financial room after making changes to their 2 times Super Bowl-winning QB’s contract.

Chiefs restructure the contract of Patrick Mahomes for cap space

In a bid to ensure some more financial freedom for the trade period, the Kansas City Chiefs decided to restructure Patrick Mahomes’s contract with them. The Chiefs uncovered $9.6 million in cap space after they chose to tweak $12 million of the 2023 roster bonus of Patrick Mahomes into a signing bonus.

This move resulted in trimming down Mahomes’s $49.3 million cap hit for this season to $39.7 million. It also meant that the Chiefs now have $13.6 million in total cap space. Patrick Mahomes is already in the second year of his $450 million 10-year deal with the Chiefs. And this is the second time that the team has tweaked the 2 time MVP’s contract to make room for cap space.

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After losing their WR Juju-Smith Schuster to the New England Patriots on Wednesday, the Chiefs will be looking forward to signing another veteran for their WR position. With the likes of OBJ, and DJ Clark still in the mix in the free agency market for this position, there are rumors that Arizona Cardinals DeAndre Hopkins might be the potential replacement coming in.

Hopkins to the Chiefs Kingdom?

If the Chiefs trade for DeAndre Hopkins, he could give Mahomes a huge buff on the field in the passing game. No matter how good of a player Patrick Mahomes is, taking some of that pressure off his shoulders could be the best thing to do for the Chiefs on the field.

The acquisition of Hopkins will solidify the Chiefs’ position as the top Super Bowl favorite for the upcoming season as well. It will be interesting to see how the teams plan to use the cap space they freed after the Mahomes contract restructuring. This might be the start of another Super Bowl journey for the team.

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