{"id":27549,"date":"2025-05-06T05:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T05:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/27549\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T05:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T05:20:19","slug":"kansas-city-chiefs-officially-sign-jeffrey-bassa-brashard-smith-to-rookie-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/27549\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs officially sign Jeffrey Bassa, Brashard Smith to rookie contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, May 5, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> signed linebacker Jeffrey Bassa and running back Brashard Smith to rookie contracts after selecting them in the 2025 NFL draft last month.<\/p>\n<p>Bassa was Kansas City&#8217;s fifth-round pick and joins the Chiefs after an illustrious collegiate career at the University of Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Smith, a former Southern Methodist University Mustang, was selected by Kansas City in Round 7 and is a dynamic running back prospect who could make waves with the Chiefs as a rookie.<\/p>\n<p>News of Kansas City&#8217;s latest signings was first reported by veteran NFL insider Aaron Wilson of KPRC2 in Houston, Texas:<\/p>\n<p>Wilson&#8217;s initial report didn&#8217;t indicate how much each player is set to be paid, though neither contract is expected to break the bank for Kansas City&#8217;s front office.<\/p>\n<p>With Bassa and Smith officially under contract, the Chiefs will turn their attention to signing the rest of Kansas City&#8217;s rookie class in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2025\/05\/05\/chiefs-sign-jeffrey-bassa-brashard-smith-rookie-contracts\/83465092007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chiefs sign Jeffrey Bassa, Brashard Smith to rookie contracts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chiefs sign Jeffrey Bassa, Brashard Smith to rookie contracts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, May 5, the Kansas City Chiefs signed linebacker Jeffrey Bassa and running back Brashard Smith to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[3258,3285,346,7,2774,118,110,2438,2437,6,11732,11731],"class_list":{"0":"post-27549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-aaron-wilson","9":"tag-brashard-smith","10":"tag-chiefs","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-jeffrey-bassa","13":"tag-kansas-city","14":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","15":"tag-kansascity","16":"tag-kansascitychiefs","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-rookie-contracts","19":"tag-southern-methodist-university"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114459208991016037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549","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=27549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}