Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce and his older brother — Philadelphia Eagles heart Jason Kelce — host a weekly podcast referred to as “New Heights.” The title is an homage to the neighborhood in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the place they grew up.
Except for speaking concerning the Hollywood Brown acquisition, the brothers talk about defensive lineman Aaron Donald’s retirement from soccer — and which animal they’d select to swap legs with. Later within the episode, Jason brings again two former Eagles teammates, Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata, to speak about soccer and offensive linemen stuff.
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1. Possibly, $11 million for Hollywood Brown
The Chiefs not too long ago signed a one-year cope with free agent vast receiver Hollywood Brown. The contract contains incentives that would deliver the overall worth of the contract to $11 million. Nonetheless, since Brown missed prolonged time with accidents in 2023 that suppressed his statistics, $2.8 million of the $11 million shall be labeled as NLTBE (Not More likely to Be Earned), which brings his wage cap quantity all the way down to someplace within the vary of $8.2 million.
Arrowhead Satisfaction govt editor John Dixon broke down the main points in a chunk he wrote earlier this week.
The deal begins with a $3 million signing bonus. Brown’s base wage is $3.5 million, which brings the beginning cap determine to $6.5 million. Brown’s $250,000 exercise bonus may even rely in opposition to the cap.
Then Brown can earn bonuses for his taking part in time — that’s, his proportion of offensive snap counts. He was on the sphere for 69% of the Arizona Cardinals’ performs in 2023, so $750,000 of a possible $1.5 million incentive is assessed as likely-to-be-earned (LTBE) and shall be charged in opposition to the 2024 cap.
One other incentive of as much as $1.5 million is predicated on his receiving yardage. With 574 yards for Arizona final season, solely the bottom threshold ($500,000 for 500 yards) shall be LTBE in 2024.
Then Brown is slated to obtain a complete of $250,000 in per-game roster bonuses. In a 17-game season, these will quantity to $14,706 for every sport. Since Brown appeared in 14 2023 video games, about $206,000 (14 occasions $14,706) of those per-game bonuses shall be LTBE.
Lastly, Brown can earn a $500,000 bonus if he scores 5 touchdowns — plus one other $250,000 for each the sixth and seventh touchdowns. However since he solely scored 4 in Arizona final season, these are NLTBE incentives that may solely rely in 2025.
All of that provides as much as an $8.2 million cap hit for the approaching season.
Discussing the language of as much as $11 million led to some extent of dispute between Jason and Travis. Jason mentioned that he was aggravated with the faux cash and posturing by groups and brokers that inflated the perceived variety of the contract for the sake of the optics of the state of affairs.
Travis disagreed and countered that soccer is not the one occupation with performance-based incentives.
“It is each contract in any world. All people has incentives. All people has stuff of their line of labor that they could have to fulfill.”
Jason held agency in his stance although on the matter, even commenting that his contracts had been reported as price greater than the assured {dollars} truly had been.
Being the good teammate and cheerleader he’s, Travis was assured Brown would hit each one in every of his incentives.
“Hollywood goes to get 11 mil as a result of he is price each penny, and he is about to go loopy this yr.”
I believe Brown can have hassle assembly all of his incentives. Regardless, it is a win-win state of affairs for Kansas Metropolis.
Both they lower your expenses in opposition to the cap, or they pay a man for having a wonderful season at a place that wants it.
2. Pumped to get to work!
Travis mentioned that he’s excited to play with Brown as a result of his capability to stretch the sphere provides a special aspect to the offense.
“I am pumped about this one, man,” defined Travis. The man can completely fly.”
He went on to say that he reached out to guys who performed with Brown whereas he was at Oklahoma College and that everybody he talked to spoke extremely of the vast receiver.
“[I] talked to my guys — my Oklahoma Sooners — about what kind of man he’s, and everyone simply raves concerning the particular person he’s within the constructing.”
3. Large Pink is out recruiting
Because it seems, Brown did not discover his method to the Chiefs on his personal. Head coach Andy Reid was sizzling on the recruiting path, texting Brown, persuading him to come back to Kansas Metropolis.
After he signed with Kansas Metropolis, Brown posted a textual content message he acquired from Reid to his Instagram account.
“Hollywood, suppose Pink in the present day, KC Pink with diamonds!!!” learn the message.
Evidently, Travis approves of his coach’s ways to get extra expertise within the constructing.
“Among the best issues was coach Reid’s textual content,” smiled Travis.
