Chiefs 2015 Offseason (OTC Edition)

     OK, nerd alert.  I'm a HUGE fan of the NFL offseason.  I love the personnel scenarios, the analysis, the Cap juggling.  I really enjoy the games, but man, for me, I love the first few months of the offseason.

     That's why sites like overthecap and fanspeak are my friends right now.  They let me (a random fan) 'fix' the Chiefs this off-season.  Right now, the Chiefs have -$2.3m in Cap space.  Based on who they're paying, and how much, that is an insignificant amount.  Dwayne Bowe had a run-in with police in the off-season, and due to a clause in his contract, the Chiefs can supposedly cut him for almost nothing.

Here's what I did on OTC:
Restructures:
Alex Smith:  Converted  $6m of base salary to a roster bonus.  Saves $4.5m

Extensions:
Tamba Hali:  Three year extension adds $25m of new money to the deal and saves $4.5m in 2015
Eric Berry:  Extends Berry one more season, spreads all of this year's base salary over this season and next since he isn't likely to play in 2015.
Derrick Johnson: Adds 3 years and $18 million, saves a few million more dollars
Husain Abdullah:  Adds 4 years and $19 million, $6m signing bonus

Cuts:
Dwayne Bowe:  Post June 1st cut, saves over $9m
Mike Devito:  Saves $4m  Other possibility is a trade with the same savings.
Joe Mays: saves $3m
Donnie Avery:  saves $3 million
AJ Jenkins:  Saves $900,000
Sean McGrath: saves $100,000 (not even sure why he's still on the list)

Re-sign:
Rodney Hudson: 5 years, $30m, $7.5m signing bonus
Justin Houston: 6 years, $82.6m Highest paid OLB by $16m, highest average for an OLB, as well.  I think he'll get a deal under $80,000,000
Jason Avant: 2 years, $3 million
Ron Parker: 1 year, $745,000

Moves to come:
Chase Daniel, Anthony Fasano

     This leaves $19.3m in Cap space.  IF we need $7m for rookies, that's $12m in space.  The deals I gave out were pretty generous, and I think Houston will get a deal that makes him the highest paid OLB, but less than $80,000,000, but that depends on how long, too.  Five years $70m is  $14m per year, just like 6/$84m.

     Assuming Berry doesn't play, the Chiefs' biggest holes are OG, WR, S.  The Chiefs can draft people for WR, OG, S, ILB, but who knows what the draft picks will do in their rookie season.

I'll probably do this 3-4 more times, and have several different draft scenarios, and they'll be regular posts to this blog.