Chiefs Swung Big At RB In Free Agency, Fall Outside Of Top 20 Most Improved Rosters
The Kansas City Chiefs did improve its running game after landing running back Kenneth Walker III but the lack of improvement at wide receiver could haunt the team in 2026.
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Let's go Chiefs Kingdom, and welcome to the Chiefs Roundtable Podcast.
I am Golden Jay.
That right there is Chico Noise.
We are from the Indiana Chiefs Fans Podcast.
And man, oh man, oh man.
You know I didn't wanna talk about it.
You know I said we just need to let it go, and we announced it a week or two ago.
Travis Kelce coming back.
Well- Yeah he actually officially signed his contract.
And let me tell you right up front, I didn't know what was going on with this thing.
you know, from initial out of the gate stuff, they just talked about a one-year deal worth $12 million with about $3 million worth of, of incentives.
So, you know, it could be up to 15.
But man, the truth comes out.
Mm-hmm.
He si- he signs a deal that's three years, and what is it?
45 million, uh- Uh- Oh, G- four Yeah, it's 45 or 40 million.
Max value of 57.7.
57.
Max value of 57.
Okay.
Let me, let me just say this right up front.
If Travis comes back for another year, I would be completely and utterly surprised.
I think he wanted one more year to kinda brush off the crap season that they had last year, get Pat back and healthy, and especially I think th- I think Travis knew he was coming back.
I don't think there was ever really any dispute in his mind.
I think he always knew.
Never a doubt.
Yeah.
He knew that he wanted to come back.
But you know, you gotta dangle that.
You gotta dangle that, that carrot out there in front of the, in front of the donkey to see how far it'll go before it finally just gives up and- Right
