{"id":800462,"date":"2026-03-08T13:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/800462\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:53:14","slug":"report-chiefs-wont-tender-veteran-ol-ahead-of-nfl-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/800462\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Chiefs won&#8217;t tender veteran OL ahead of NFL free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report from NFL insider Jeremy Fowler, 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> will not tender veteran offensive lineman Mike Caliendo before free agency starts this week.<\/p>\n<p>Caliendo, who began his professional career with Kansas City as an undrafted free agent in 2022, was a member of the Chiefs&#8217; Super Bowl LVII and LVIII rosters. While he was never a consistent starter for Kansas City, Caliendo played a key role as a backup blocker for Patrick Mahomes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Now set to hit the open market, Caliendo will get a chance to earn a high-dollar contract for another team after his 2025 campaign, which saw the former Western Michigan Bronco suit up for all 17 of the Chiefs&#8217; regular-season contests.<\/p>\n<p>Fans should expect Kansas City&#8217;s front office to shore up the Chiefs&#8217; offensive line during free agency in March and the 2026 NFL Draft in April.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to see how Chiefs general manager Brett Veach will compensate for the loss of Caliendo in the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2026\/03\/08\/chiefs-wont-tender-mike-caliendo-free-agency-nfl-offseason\/89052534007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chiefs free agency: KC won&#039;t tender veteran OL Mike Caliendo;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chiefs free agency: KC won&#8217;t tender veteran OL Mike Caliendo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a report from NFL insider Jeremy Fowler, the Kansas City Chiefs will not tender veteran offensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[24027,346,7,4609,6388,118,110,2438,2437,21445,6,499,2821],"class_list":["post-800462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-caliendo","tag-chiefs","tag-football","tag-free-agency","tag-jeremy-fowler","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascitychiefs","tag-mike-caliendo","tag-nfl","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-undrafted-free-agent"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116193893154813441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800462","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=800462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}