{"id":41224,"date":"2025-03-09T23:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T23:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=41224"},"modified":"2025-03-09T23:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T23:48:31","slug":"chiefs-re-sign-linebacker-nick-bolton-to-3-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=41224","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs re-sign linebacker Nick Bolton to 3-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/.image\/t_share\/MjA4Nzg2NTYxMjMwMTg1NjQ1\/nick-bolton-kansas-city-chiefs.webp\" alt=\"Las Vegas Raiders Could Steal Key Star from Bitter Rival Kansas City Chiefs  - Athlon Sports\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"83gYnX\">NFL Network\u2019s Ian Rapoport has reported (and <em>Arrowhead Pride<\/em> has confirmed through a source) that the Kansas City Chiefs have re-signed their MIKE linebacker Nick Bolton to a three-year contract worth $45 million.<\/p>\n<div id=\"bVggl3\">\n<blockquote data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The #Chiefs are keeping their star LB home: Sources say playmaker Nick Bolton and KC are in agreement on a deal to keep him with the team that drafted him.<\/p>\n<p>He gets a 3-year, $45M deal with $30M fully guaranteed in a deal done by Tommy Condon of CAA. pic.twitter.com\/49Xw6EdHJR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1898802136458183013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1898802136458183013%7Ctwgr%5E0b811cdca15cc9da78a925c8a87557764c0e73a6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.arrowheadpride.com%2F2025%2F3%2F9%2F24381534%2Fchiefs-roster-nick-bolton-re-signed-to-3-year-contract<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"D51z0a\">When the NFL\u2019s \u201clegal tampering period\u201d begins on Monday \u2014 the fifth-year star\u2019s 25th birthday \u2014 Bolton will <em>not<\/em> be among the linebackers being offered a contract to join another team.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ORc8Fj\">According to the MMQB\u2019s Albert Breer, Bolton\u2019s contract is a \u201cflat\u201d deal that will pay him $15 million in each season. The first two seasons of are guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"KwFrzs\">It\u2019s been clear the former Missouri player \u2014 whom Kansas City acquired in the second round (58th overall) of the 2021 NFL Draft \u2014 wanted to stay home.<\/p>\n<p id=\"FVy6Xa\">\u201cI\u2019ve been there for seven years,\u201d he told our Pete Sweeney after the Super Bowl. \u201cIt feels like home. Welcomed me with open arms as a little 18-year-old with short hair, no facial hair. Let me go through growing pains and find out my own identity \u2014 and it reflects home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"TP991B\">Now it will remain his home.<\/p>\n<p id=\"0MFsi9\">We now estimate that the Chiefs are between $19.2 million and $21.2 million over the salary cap \u2014 probably $21.2 million over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of free agency, Kansas City has signed its MIKE linebacker to a three-year deal worth $45 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":41225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chiefs re-sign linebacker Nick Bolton to 3-year contract - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=41224\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chiefs re-sign linebacker Nick Bolton to 3-year contract - 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