Impact It sounds like a simple restructure, converting his 2026 base salary into a signing bonus in order to drop his 2026 cap hit from $78.2 million to $34.65 million. The Chiefs still need to make other moves to become cap-compliant by the start of the new league year March 11. Mahomes, meanwhile, is in the early stages of his rehab process after undergoing surgery in mid-December to repair ACL and LCL tears in his left knee. He's already said that he's aiming to be ready for Week 1, though he did acknowledge that he "can't predict what happens throughout the process," per The Associated Press.
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