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Chiefs 2014 - Off-Season

Posted on July 8, 2010 at 08:19 PM.

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Re-Signing Players

Re-Signed and/or Extended Player Contracts

We re-signed RE Dorsey to a 4year/38million agreement, keeping him in our defensive line!

We were also very excited to sit down with a handful of players going into the last year of their contracts that we feel are key to our longer term outlook. WR Black bargained very hard, but agreed to a 6year/55.45million contract. We also worked hard to sign DT O.Williams to a long-term 6year/73.33million agreement, feeling he was a cornerstone to our defense.

Also signing new extensions, LE T.Jackson, coming off a great year, to a 4year/42.5million contract and CB Bailey to 4years/19.8million.

Released Players

The following players, for a variety of reasons, were not offered new agreements with the team this season.
** Mainly our attempt to still have some salary cap with which to sign draft picks for the coming year, including a first round pick.

LG Waters
FS Watsha
RG Page
ROLB Hali
TE Dantonio
RE Hayes

We also released outright SS C.Williams.

Pre-Draft Trades

I am happy to report the following trades made just prior to the draft.

** And I must confess (as the real human, not the Chiefs "Dynasty GM" that I believe I made a very bad mistake in judging the "scouting" and up-coming "draft", which I am happy to relay.
I looked at Scouting after year-end and noted a player that felt would help us big-time, which we had scouted and had great numbers. He was in the first seven names listed so I felt we MUST trade something with a bottom five team to get a higher first round pick.
I did that PRIOR TO the actual draft commencing (as you'll read below).
Once the draft actually started, I was devastated to learn that the player I was interested in was expected to go in the FIFTH round! Clearly I blew some draft picks given that scenario.
BUT, I should also point out that the best available player when we did draft in the first round was a pretty decent looking QB that I did pick up and ultimately sign (again as you'll read).
But I did learn that the probably better way to do this is to wait until the start of the draft and then, despite the frenzy in those first picks, do the deal then, once you could see some of the truly top prospects on the draft board.
Oh well. Duly noted and a learning experience!

The Chiefs traded MLB Tulloch to the Steelers for 5th, 6th and 7th Round Picks in the draft.

We also traded WR S.Johnson and 6th and 7th picks to the Bears for their 5th pick.

And finally, in an effort to put our first round pick much higher in that first round because of a player our scouting team had uncovered and would perfectly fill a now-vacant position on our roster, we traded our 1st, 2nd and 3rd picks to the Detroit Lions for their 1st pick (4th overall)!

We also traded LE Mason to the Jaguars for SS Maxwell and next years 5th pick!
* This trade actually occurred JUST prior to the pre-season, but I am including it here for consistency.