Trent Williams was *this* close to signing with Kansas City before he signed his massive deal with the 49ers. Matt Barrows of the Athletic tweets that the Chiefs “were the runners up in the Trent Williams negotiations,” noting that the veteran was very close to signing with the defending AFC champions.
This is a fine consolation for the Chiefs front office considering the giant contract that Williams ultimately got from San Francisco. The eight-time Pro Bowler inked a six-year, $138.06MM deal with the 49ers, including $55.1MM guaranteed and a $30.1MM signing bonus. The contract made Williams the highest-paid offensive lineman in the league.
The 32-year-old blocker graded as Pro Football Focus’ No. 1 overall offensive tackle in 2020 despite sitting out the entire 2019 campaign. The 32-year-old was widely regarded as the best available free agent in this year’s class, regardless of position.
The Chiefs are committed to revamping Patrick Mahomes‘ offensive line this offseason. While they may have struck out with Williams, they’ve managed to still add some reinforcement. The team inked Joe Thuney to a five-year deal, and we learned earlier today that the team had signed Kyle Long out of retirement.
It’s they got Williams I would imagine chiefs would be unstoppable. I’m surprised he didn’t go to chiefs the money must have been massively off. Chiefs have a better shot at consistent title runs over niners.
As the niners team is right now? Yes, but depending on a particular qb trade that has been talked about for months now, that trade could change title consistency for the niners.
I didn’t think KC even had that much cap space to sign Williams. The rich almost got richer.
They do this year because they restructured all their big contracts and pushed off money for the future. Next season, they already have 152 million in cap hits on only 7 players. I don’t think they have the consistent payroll flexibility the Niners do because the Niners didn’t give their QB 500 million .