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Adam Teicher
Kansas City, Mo. – The Chiefs have informed Pro Bowl’s guard, Trey Smith, who will use the franchise label, a source said on Thursday, Adam Schefter of ESPN.
The measure will effectively keep Smith outside the free agents market. When Smith franchise, Chiefs are obliged to offer a one -year contract worth approximately $ 23.4 million.
The best paid guard of the NFL is Landon Dickerson of the Philadelphia Eagles with $ 21 million per year, so it essentially turns Smith into the best paid guard in football.
The deadline for the equipment to use the franchise label is Monday at 4 pm et.
The Chiefs and Smith will have until July 15 to accept a long -term contract. If an agreement is not reached for that date, Smith will play the 2025 season in its franchise tender.
Smith, 25, joined the Chiefs as a sixth -round draft selection of Tennessee.
Like many teams, the Chiefs had a much higher draft rating in Smith, but they did not select it to the sixth round due to the concerns about a blood module problem in their lungs while they were at the university. But Smith immediately took over the right guard for Kansas City, starting 67 of the possible 68 regular seasonal games in his four years. Nor has a start in 13 postseason games been lost.
In 2024, Smith held the 13th place among the guards in the rates of passes blocking (93.9%) and sixth in the racing block gain rate (75.1%race). It allowed only 1.5 captures, according to the next generation statistics of the NFL, and committed only two penalties. He was rewarded with his first Pro Bowl assent.
The three previous seasons, Smith ended up among the top four in the passage rate of pass between the guards, including the second in 2021 (96.0%) and in 2023 (96.6%).
