{"id":542541,"date":"2026-03-24T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/542541\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:24:09","slug":"chiefs-news-3-24-new-dt-khyiris-tonga-signed-with-the-wrong-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/542541\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs News 3\/24: New DT Khyiris Tonga signed with the wrong team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">According to Spotrac, Kelce\u2019s three-year contract includes $12 million guaranteed up front, representing the total amount of actual money in the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">There is no guaranteed cash earnings due to Kelce after 2026, but Arrowhead Pride cap guru Jared Sapp points out that Kelce would have to be scheduled for minimum salaries of $1.345 million in 2027 and $1.39 million in 2028; those are the minimum-salary marks for players credited with ten or more seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">That brings the money over three seasons to $14.735 million, then there\u2019s the biggest factor in a total value of $40 million more: the \u201cPoison Pill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">According to Spotrac, the pill comes in the form of $40 million guaranteed to Kelce for 2028, which is scheduled to trigger on June 8th, 2027. As Spotrac notes, this allows the Chiefs to use the post-June 1 designation next offseason to void the dead cap taken on when guaranteeing that lump sum, and say farewell to Kelce \u2014 or renegotiate an actual contract to have him back after next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Spotrac, Kelce\u2019s three-year contract includes $12 million guaranteed up front, representing the total amount of actual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[110834,15977,349,99],"class_list":["post-542541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arrowheadlines","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}