{"id":64658,"date":"2025-05-27T06:22:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=64658"},"modified":"2025-05-27T06:22:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:22:52","slug":"chiefs-pro-bowler-projected-to-break-nfl-record-with-future-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=64658","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs Pro Bowler Projected To Break NFL Record With Future Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2201938932-e1748294322707.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2201938932-e1748294322707.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2201938932-e1748294322707.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2201938932-e1748294322707.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Chiefs Pro Bowler Projected To Break NFL Record With Future Deal\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs&#8217; general manager, Brett Veach, speaking to the media at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, February 25, 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs made an interesting decision in late February to franchise tag Pro Bowl guard, Trey Smith for what became a league record $23.4 million single-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>A rare occasion in which the franchise tag makes a player the clear top earner at his position \u2013 due to the fact that the salary was based on the top salaries of offensive linemen, not pure guards \u2013 the former sixth round pick will still likely desire the security of a long-term deal in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>A long-term deal that could, ironically, give him a smaller average per year (APY) than he is currently earning on the franchise tag.<\/p>\n<p>Trey Smith is an excellent guard, but having made just one Pro Bowl in four years, he is not regarded by many as one of the top handful of interior offensive linemen in the league \u2013 players of the caliber of Quentin Nelson, Chris Lindstrom, and Landon Dickerson \u2013 who is currently the highest paid guard in football ($21 million APY).<\/p>\n<h2>Trey Smith Predicted To Break The NFL Record For IOL Salary<\/h2>\n<p>Yet, Kristopher Knox of Bleacher Report believes that the market is Smith\u2019s to lose at this point in time, as both parties try to figure out a long term extension this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould the Chiefs get an extension done with Smith,\u201d Knox notes, \u201cthere\u2019s a good chance that he\u2019ll supplant Philadelphia Eagles guard Landon Dickerson as the highest-paid in league history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDickerson\u2019s latest contract is worth $21 million annually over four years with $50 million guaranteed.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"id\/article\/slide\/5198801\/element\/3\">\n<p>\u201cThere are a few reasons why Smith\u2019s deal could top Dickerson\u2019s. For one, the Chiefs tend to reward their best players\u2014Kansas City\u2019s Creed Humphrey is currently the league\u2019s highest-paid center. Secondly, while Smith has received just one Pro Bowl nod and is a former sixth-round pick, he\u2019s also one of the league\u2019s best young guards.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Should Trey Smith Become The Highest Paid Guard In The NFL?<\/h2>\n<p>Yet, whilst Smith may well end up as the league\u2019s highest paid guard \u2013 in fact technically he already is on a yearly basis \u2013 it may be more out of necessity than deservedness of the title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPro Football Focus ranked Smith, who will turn just 26 next month, 14th overall among all guards last season.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"id\/article\/slide\/5198801\/element\/5\">\n<p>\u201cLastly, the Chiefs may <em>have<\/em> to give Smith a record-setting deal to get a long-term contract signed. He\u2019s set to earn $23.4 million fully guaranteed under the franchise tag this season, which is both more than Dickerson makes annually and close to half of the guarantees on his four-year deal. Pocketing that money and hitting the market in 2026 will be an option for Smith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>#14 is not necessarily the rank you\u2019d want when considering a player who could well become the highest paid in the league at his position.<\/p>\n<p>But at just 26 and having remained ultra-durable during his career; starting in 67 out of a possible 68 games over the course of his four year pro career to date; it is not the most unreasonable stretch that we have seen in recent years (read: Dak Prescott).<\/p>\n<p>And with Cowboys guard, Tyler Smith, also competing for that same goal, it will be interesting to see which of the two comes out on top as the most financially compensated guard in football come the start of the season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Daniel Arwas Daniel Arwas is a sports writer who covers the NFL for Heavy.com.\u00a0Daniel began his career in sports writing in 2022 and has covered the NFL and college football for Gridiron Heroics\u00a0and\u00a0The Hammer. More about Daniel Arwas<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs are predicted to reset the market for guards with the extension for Pro Bowler, Trey Smith, later this offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":64659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64658","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 Pro Bowler Projected To Break NFL Record With Future Deal - 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=64658\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chiefs Pro Bowler Projected To Break NFL Record With Future Deal - 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