{"id":553190,"date":"2026-03-22T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553190\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:19:16","slug":"nfl-analyst-ranks-chiefs-veteran-signing-among-top-offseason-bargains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553190\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Analyst ranks Chiefs’ veteran signing among top offseason bargains"},"content":{"rendered":"

The offseason free agency frenzy has already netted the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> multiple players expected to make immediate impacts in 2026. Chiefs general manager Brett Veach and his staff may have found some hidden gems and signed them to team-friendly deals.<\/p>\n

According to Jared Dubin of CBS Sports<\/a>, the Chiefs’ signing of defensive lineman Khyiris Tonga was identified as one of the 10 best bargain deals of the offseason through one week.<\/p>\n

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“Tonga is typically the kind of player you don’t like to pay. A guy in the middle of his career (he’ll turn 30 this offseason) who was available for next to nothing one year before having a career season and then getting paid.” wrote Dubin<\/a>, “But he was so good in his role last year that I think it makes sense \u2014 especially at this price point, which isn’t crazy at all. The Chiefs need this type of run-stopper in the middle.”<\/p>\n

Kansas City signed Tonga to a three-year, $21 million deal last week. Last season, he started 8 of the 14 games, recording 24 tackles for the AFC Champion New England Patriots. During his five-year career, he has 113 tackles, .5 sacks, one fumble recovery, and six pass deflections\/batted balls.<\/p>\n

Tonga previously played with the Atlanta Falcons, Minnesota Vikings, and Arizona Cardinals since being selected by the Chicago Bears in the 2021 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: NFL Analyst ranks Chiefs’ veteran signing among top offseason bargains<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The offseason free agency frenzy has already netted the Kansas City Chiefs multiple players expected to make immediate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[1745,1766,214626,214625,49,48,4846,1735,52684,3311,1727,56078,1726,1718,514,82],"class_list":["post-553190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-bargain-deals","tag-brett-veach","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cbs-sports","tag-chicago-bears","tag-jared-dubin","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-khyiris-tonga","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}