The Kansas City Chiefs will be forced to make some tough choices down the line when it comes to the 2021 salary cap.

Max 2021 Cap Space Based on Restructures Potential 2021 Free Agents With these factors in place, the Washington Redskins currently rank fifth in the NFL when it comes to projected salary cap health in 2021, estimated at just under $87 million. It won’t be easy for this year’s Super Bowl participants to stay on top of the NFL. The NFLPA salary cap report lists the Chiefs with $24,007,936 in available cap space in 2019. Mahomes counts just $4.5 million against the cap this year, then $5.2 million in 2020 and the Chiefs have a fifth-year option for 2021. Of course, Jones being traded still makes the most sense, given the Chiefs apparent inaction towards him.

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Something to monitor: The salary cap in 2021 could potentially take a massive hit due to COVID-19. And we could have the cap space in 2021 if we do some smart finangling like effectively replace Fisher with Niang and/or extend Tyrann Matthieu and Travis Kelce. I did a little math and I think that we can ink Chris Jones and all of our draft picks and increase that to about $45-50m in 2021. Jason Fitzgerald of Over The Cap recently posted his earliest salary cap projections for 2021 along with a composite score that rates the salary cap health of every NFL team. All sorts of options on the table there. So assuming the salary cap stays relatively steady for 2021, rather than collapses $70m, the Chiefs currently have $35m in cap space in 2021 after the Mahomes megadeal. And he has not yet clamored for a new contract, possibly allowing the Chiefs to press pause on the proposition until 2021.