Creed Humphrey Extension with Chiefs

[SHOWTIME]

Sources: The #Chiefs and Pro Bowl center Creed Humphrey have agreed to terms on a massive new deal to make him the NFL’s highest-paid center. pic.twitter.com/47C484DwuE

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) August 23, 2024

[Fishels]

Originally Posted by ChiliConCarnage

he looks like a goofy ****er in that picture. He's our goofy ****er though. Hell yeah!

This was the first time i actually saw his face lol. I had no idea he looked like that

[O.city]

Nate Taylor has it at 15.5 million per

[RunKC]

Creed HIMphrey tbh

[big nasty kcnut]

creed once knock out a horse.

[DRM08]

Originally Posted by O.city

Nate Taylor has it at 15.5 million per

Just looked at Taylor’s article. It says 4 years and $72 million on the extension. That’s $18M per year. But Creed still has one cheap year left on his rookie deal, so it’s an overall average of about $15.4 million per year for 5 seasons.

[xztop123]

That’s huge money to a center. Woowwwww

[Basileus777]

Creed is signing early, the deal is for what the center market will be in a year, not now. 13 million won't be top of the market then.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Basileus777

Creed is signing early, the deal is for what the center market will be in a year, not now. 13 million won't be top of the market then.

Exactly. 2 of the next 4 years will see huge cap bumps up. This is getting ahead of the game.

[tmax63]

It appears to be like some of Veach's other contracts. Right now everyone is "OMG they gave him how much?" and in a couple of years they'll be saying "OMG he's way underpaid compared to -----'s deal that was just signed. NFL salaries are like land prices, very rarely do they go down.

[O.city]

Originally Posted by DRM08

Just looked at Taylor’s article. It says 4 years and $72 million on the extension. That’s $18M per year. But Creed still has one cheap year left on his rookie deal, so it’s an overall average of about $15.4 million per year for 5 seasons.

So it’s a 4 year extension that kicks in after this year?

[RunKC]

FWIW I listened to Verderame’s Patreon discussing this and he said the Chiefs absolutely want Trey Smith. Of course that’s hard to figure out but they want to get him done.

They wanted to keep Tyreek but he got greedy. Wonder if Trey could stay at a good but not insane offer.

[BWillie]

Now that we've locked up an elite center I expect us to do QB sneaks and run under center on short yardage.


But we won't

[ThrobProng]

I'm good with this. He's the best in the game by far, and he's the anchor of the OL.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by O.city

So it’s a 4 year extension that kicks in after this year?

Yeah - any extension will kick in after the rookie year is over. I can't think of any team that will offer an extension that tears up the final year of a rookie deal (or if it's even allowed).

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by KingPriest2

How can we afford him?


We have $17 mil I. Cap this year

But wow

$8 mil for next year.

We still have Smith and Bolten and other free agents

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19

Wonder if the higher AAV than expected is a way to maybe give Trey a very similar deal and keep both happy here. Rather than trying to do Creed at $15m, and Trey then at $20m — maybe you can have both at around $18.5m by getting Smith to take an almost identical deal to stay home.

Either way, had to get this one done.

Originally Posted by Couch-Potato

We still gonna sign Trey Smith too?

Originally Posted by Mecca

50/50

I think Bolton's likely gone though.

I agree. Smith is gone. Bolton depends on his play this year if we sign next year. We cant sign everyone. It is what it is.