The bottom half of the roster will make more
Minimum salaries for both rookies and veterans are increasing under the new CBA. The rookie minimum salary in 2019 was $610,000. That will increase to $710,000 in 2020. In 2021, it will be $760,000 and in each consecutive year, it will increase by $45,000. The veteran minimum salary is also set to increase by increments of $90,000 in 2020, $80,000 or more in 2021 and $45,000 in each consecutive year after that.
The Chiefs have been quite good at acquiring cheap talent. Just this past season you had several big contributors, like Charvarius Ward, playing minimum deals. Any extra money earned had to be through performance-based pay incentives. Now that those minimum numbers will go up it will place increased importance on landing contributors on those types of contracts.