By means of the season’s first six weeks, the largest story surrounding the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs has been its huge receiver group. Now, the Chiefs have made a transfer to shore up the place, making a commerce with the New York Jets that sends their wideout Mecole Hardman (and their 2025 seventh-round choose) to Kansas Metropolis in trade for the Jets’ 2025 sixth-round choose.
Hardman, after all, was a second-round choose for the Chiefs in 2019, accumulating two Tremendous Bowl rings throughout 4 seasons with the group — together with 26 begins amongst 57 video games, 151 receptions for two,088 yards (and 16 touchdowns), 20 rushes for 125 yards (and two touchdowns) and 101 kick returns for 1,482 yards (and two touchdowns).
In March, the Chiefs allowed Hardman to hunt a brand new deal in free company. He signed a one-year, $4 million contract with the Jets. However $2.5 million of that determine was a signing bonus that may proceed to rely towards New York’s wage cap — together with a $500,000 exercise bonus he earned there.
So the Chiefs will take over the stability of Hardman’s $1.08 million base wage for 2023 ($720,000) and a per-game roster bonus of $24,705. Since Hardman performed eight video games in 2022 — and has already earned 5 of those per-game bonuses in New York — a most of three will rely towards Kansas Metropolis’s 2023 cap. The remaining are thought of not-likely-to-be-earned (NLTBE) for 2023 — and if earned, will rely towards the 2024 cap. Hardman may additionally earn separate incentives for at the least 50 receptions, 650 yards and 6 touchdowns. These begin at $125,000 and ramp as much as 500,000 — all of them NLTBE this season.
