{"id":209590,"date":"2025-07-15T18:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T18:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/209590\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T18:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T18:22:10","slug":"former-tennessee-football-star-trey-smith-becomes-nfls-highest-paid-guard-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/209590\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tennessee football star Trey Smith becomes NFL’s highest-paid guard | Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Tennessee Vols football<\/a> star Trey Smith<\/a> has finally secured a long-term contract extension in the NFL.<\/p>\n

Smith<\/a> will sign a four-year extension worth $92 million with the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>, ESPN reported on July 15, just ahead of the deadline later in the day for players on the franchise tag to sign a multi-year contract.<\/p>\n

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The Jackson native will earn $70 million guaranteed over the life of the deal and will become the highest-paid offensive guard in the NFL.<\/p>\n

Smith, 26, was named to his first Pro Bowl last season and is a two-time Super Bowl champion with the Chiefs<\/a>. Kansas City gave Smith a franchise tag in the spring ahead of Smith’s unrestricted free agency. Had Smith not signed an extension on Tuesday, he would have made $23.4 million in 2025 under the terms of the franchise tag and could have reached unrestricted free agency next spring.<\/p>\n

The former Vol was a two-time All-SEC honoree in Knoxville but slipped into the sixth round of the 2021 NFL Draft to the Chiefs due to concerns about Smith’s history with blood clots.<\/p>\n

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Through four NFL seasons, Smith has started 80 out of a possible 81 games across the regular and postseason.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Knoxville News Sentinel: Former Tennessee football star Trey Smith signs contract extension with Chiefs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tennessee Vols football star Trey Smith has finally secured a long-term contract extension in the NFL. Smith…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4191,7,32472,110,6,6436,44237,1216],"class_list":{"0":"post-209590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-adam-schefter","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-franchise-tag","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-history","14":"tag-tennessee-vols-football","15":"tag-trey-smith"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114858645533057710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}