{"id":741705,"date":"2026-02-10T03:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/741705\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T03:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:29:14","slug":"chiefs-will-begin-the-2026-offseason-with-least-cap-space-in-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/741705\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs will begin the 2026 offseason with least cap space in the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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>&#8216; financials will be deep in the red when the 2026 NFL offseason officially begins on March 12.<\/p>\n<p>According to the experts at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\/overview\/_\/year\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Spotrac.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Spotrac.com<\/a>, Kansas City is currently projected to have -$57,583,869 in cap space, the lowest figure among all NFL teams.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This means that Chiefs general manager Brett Veach will need to clear nearly $60,000,000 from Kansas City&#8217;s 2026 payroll before he can sign a single player in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>While the Chiefs have gone to great lengths to keep their window for championship contention open, the team&#8217;s current salary cap number is clearly untenable.<\/p>\n<p>Fans in Kansas City should expect Veach to restructure Patrick Mahomes&#8217; contract, which could free up $44,360,000 in cap space by converting the star quarterback&#8217;s salary to guaranteed bonuses, according to the quants at <a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/player\/patrick-mahomes\/5594\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:OverTheCap.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">OverTheCap.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to find out how Veach will get the Chiefs&#8217; financials back into the black before free agency begins next month.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2026\/02\/09\/chiefs-cap-space-limited-resources-2026-offseason\/88598868007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chiefs free agency: KC will have limited resources in 2026 offseason;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chiefs free agency: KC will have limited resources in 2026 offseason<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Chiefs&#8216; financials will be deep in the red when the 2026 NFL offseason officially begins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2063],"tags":[4220,6049,346,7,118,110,2438,2437,6,499],"class_list":{"0":"post-741705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-brett-veach","9":"tag-cap-space","10":"tag-chiefs","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-kansas-city","13":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","14":"tag-kansascity","15":"tag-kansascitychiefs","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-patrick-mahomes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116044219749055899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741705","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=741705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}