{"id":211272,"date":"2025-07-16T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/211272\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:47:10","slug":"chiefs-give-guard-trey-smith-record-breaking-94-million-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/211272\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs give guard Trey Smith record-breaking $94 million contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hours before a deadline to reach a long-term contract extension, the Chiefs made their star right guard the highest-paid player at his position in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p>Trey Smith, a full-time starter since being drafted in the sixth round in 2021, agreed to a four-year, $94 million contract with $70 million guaranteed on Tuesday, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>The guaranteed money and average annual salary are the highest ever for a guard.<\/p>\n<p>As a player who was given the franchise tag, Smith had until 4 p.m. Tuesday to reach a long-term deal with the Chiefs, otherwise he would\u2019ve had to play the 2025 season on the one-year franchise tender, which for offensive linemen this year is $23,403,000.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36544636\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2201670550.jpg\" alt=\"Chiefs guard Trey Smith agreed to a four-year, $94 million contract on Tuesday.\" class=\"wp-image-36544636\"  \/>Chiefs guard Trey Smith agreed to a four-year, $94 million contract on Tuesday. TNS<\/p>\n<p>Smith 26, is coming off his first Pro Bowl nod last season and played a major role in the Chiefs\u2019 consecutive Super Bowl championships the prior two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The contract agreement comes 11 months after the Chiefs made Creed Humphrey the highest-paid center ever with a four-year, $72 million contract that includes $50 million guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36544633\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2192512956.jpg\" alt=\"Trey Smith (65) and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15).\" class=\"wp-image-36544633\"  \/>Trey Smith (65) and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15). Diamond Images\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Smith had blood clots in his lungs during his college career at Tennessee, which impacted his draft stock.<\/p>\n<p>But he became a Day 1 starter for the Chiefs and will remain a stalwart in front of Patrick Mahomes for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes, for one, was appreciative of the move, posting <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PatrickMahomes\/status\/1945181267021963424\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a grinning emoji on X<\/a> not long after the new of Smith\u2019s deal broke.<\/p>\n<p>After falling to the Eagles in the Super Bowl and failing on their attempt to three-peat, the Chiefs open the 2025 NFL season against the Chargers on Friday, Sept. 5 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hours before a deadline to reach a long-term contract extension, the Chiefs made their star right guard the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,2438,2437,6,9,20189],"class_list":{"0":"post-211272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascitychiefs","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-contracts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114862282899416017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211272","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=211272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}