The Kansas City Chiefs’ march toward salary cap compliance continues.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs are releasing right tackle Jawaan Taylor<\/a>, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported on Monday, per sources informed of the decision.<\/p>\n The move creates needed cap space. The release will save the cap-strapped Chiefs $20 million on the cap with $7.391 in dead money, per Over The Cap.<\/p>\n The Chiefs signed Taylor in 2023 as a centerpiece of their offensive line remake during that go-around, inking a four-year, $80 million contract<\/a>. Initially, Andy Reid indicated that the high-priced blocker would take over Patrick Mahomes<\/a>‘ blind side, despite rarely playing left tackle in his career. That decision was quickly scrapped, and Taylor spent the past three seasons as the Chiefs’ starting right tackle.<\/p>\n He’s been a capable starter throughout his tenure and mostly stayed on the field, but his blocking began to significantly fall off in 2025, and the high-profile penalty problems persist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Chiefs’ march toward salary cap compliance continues. The Chiefs are releasing right tackle Jawaan Taylor,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,7,11587,110,88,6,609,4267],"class_list":{"0":"post-786927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jawaan-taylor","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-no-minute","15":"tag-offseason-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116160332072101208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786927","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=786927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}