Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce and his older brother — Philadelphia Eagles middle Jason Kelce — host a weekly podcast referred to as “New Heights.” The title is an homage to the neighborhood in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the place they grew up.
Except for speaking concerning the Hollywood Brown acquisition, the brothers focus on defensive lineman Aaron Donald’s retirement from soccer — and which animal they’d select to swap legs with. Later within the episode, Jason brings again two former Eagles teammates, Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata, to speak about soccer and offensive linemen stuff.
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1. Perhaps, $11 million for Hollywood Brown
The Chiefs just lately signed a one-year cope with free agent broad receiver Hollywood Brown. The contract consists of incentives that would convey the full worth of the contract to $11 million. Nonetheless, since Brown missed prolonged time with accidents in 2023 that suppressed his statistics, $2.8 million of the $11 million might be categorized as NLTBE (Not Prone to Be Earned), which brings his wage cap quantity right down to someplace within the vary of $8.2 million.
Arrowhead Satisfaction govt editor John Dixon broke down the main points in a chunk he wrote earlier this week.
The deal begins with a $3 million signing bonus. Brown’s base wage is $3.5 million, which brings the beginning cap determine to $6.5 million. Brown’s $250,000 exercise bonus may even depend towards the cap.
Then Brown can earn bonuses for his enjoying time — that’s, his share of offensive snap counts. He was on the sphere for 69% of the Arizona Cardinals’ performs in 2023, so $750,000 of a possible $1.5 million incentive is assessed as likely-to-be-earned (LTBE) and might be charged towards the 2024 cap.
One other incentive of as much as $1.5 million is predicated on his receiving yardage. With 574 yards for Arizona final season, solely the bottom threshold ($500,000 for 500 yards) might be LTBE in 2024.
Then Brown is slated to obtain a complete of $250,000 in per-game roster bonuses. In a 17-game season, these will quantity to $14,706 for every sport. Since Brown appeared in 14 2023 video games, about $206,000 (14 instances $14,706) of those per-game bonuses might be LTBE.
Lastly, Brown can earn a $500,000 bonus if he scores 5 touchdowns — plus one other $250,000 for each the sixth and seventh touchdowns. However since he solely scored 4 in Arizona final season, these are NLTBE incentives that can solely depend in 2025.
All of that provides as much as an $8.2 million cap hit for the approaching season.
Discussing the language of as much as $11 million led to a degree of dispute between Jason and Travis. Jason stated that he was irritated with the faux cash and posturing by groups and brokers that inflated the perceived variety of the contract for the sake of the optics of the state of affairs.
Travis disagreed and countered that soccer is not the one career with performance-based incentives.
“It is each contract in any world. All people has incentives. All people has stuff of their line of labor that they could have to satisfy.”
Jason held agency in his stance although on the matter, even commenting that his contracts had been reported as value greater than the assured {dollars} truly had been.
Being the nice teammate and cheerleader he’s, Travis was assured Brown would hit each certainly one of his incentives.
“Hollywood goes to get 11 mil as a result of he is value each penny, and he is about to go loopy this yr.”
I believe Brown could have bother assembly all of his incentives. Regardless, it is a win-win state of affairs for Kansas Metropolis.
Both they lower your expenses towards the cap, or they pay a man for having a superb season at a place that wants it.
2. Pumped to get to work!
Travis stated that he’s excited to play with Brown as a result of his means to stretch the sphere provides a distinct factor to the offense.
“I am pumped about this one, man,” defined Travis. The man can completely fly.”
He went on to say that he reached out to guys who performed with Brown whereas he was at Oklahoma College and that everybody he talked to spoke extremely of the broad receiver.
“[I] talked to my guys — my Oklahoma Sooners — about what sort of man he’s, and all people simply raves concerning the particular person he’s within the constructing.”
3. Massive Pink is out recruiting
Because it seems, Brown did not discover his option to the Chiefs on his personal. Head coach Andy Reid was sizzling on the recruiting path, texting Brown, persuading him to return to Kansas Metropolis.
After he signed with Kansas Metropolis, Brown posted a textual content message he acquired from Reid to his Instagram account.
“Hollywood, suppose Pink right now, KC Pink with diamonds!!!” learn the message.
Evidently, Travis approves of his coach’s ways to get extra expertise within the constructing.
“Probably the greatest issues was coach Reid’s textual content,” smiled Travis.
