Kansas City Chiefs have $177 in salary cap space

The figures constantly ebb and flow, but as of right now, the Kansas City Chiefs have an incredible amount of salary cap space: $177.

Brett Veach deserves some real credit here for knowing his boundaries. His work as the Kansas City Chiefs general manager has brought the team to the very edge of their salary cap space. To be specific, the team has exactly $177 in space to work with at this point.

A few things should be stated up front. There’s no K or M missing from that total. That’s not $1.77 million or even $177,000. That’s $177, as in the same amount you’d pay to fly to, say, Orlando and back if we weren’t all quarantined inside our homes. For an even better perspective, IF they used the 25 percent off code, the Chiefs could afford this full zip jacket from their own official store.

More importantly, there’s no reason to worry. The Chiefs might look like a financially frustrated franchise (say that three times fast) at this stage, but any number of moves could generate plenty of cash—from signing Chris Jones to figuring out what to do with Sammy Watkins to restructuring a deal like they already did with Frank Clark.

That said, we couldn’t help but pause and make note of the fact that the Chiefs have only $177 in cap space. It looks so silly in comparison to everyone else that you’d almost swear it’s a typo.

Further moves will be coming. Even with only five picks, the Chiefs will need much more space to even sign their draft class, let alone to make any signings of a free agent here or there. Being so limited by the cap likely means moves are coming sooner than later, since the Chiefs want to be agile enough to take advantage of whatever the market might bring them over time.

That said, the Chiefs are the defending Super Bowl champs. This is largely a roster already ready for the rigors of another championship run if the season were to begin today. Most positions have impressive depth and the list of perceived needs should be held in check by the star power at other positions. (In other words, we all panicked about the corners last year and they turned out to be okay.)

Still for now it’s pretty funny. I’ve never seen an NFL team with the same sort of budget as me.