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The Kansas City Chiefs will carry over the majority of their remaining 2022 salary cap into the 2023 NFL season.
The Chiefs declared $2,866,615 million in unused salary cap space for rollover at the conclusion 2022 NFL regular season according to ESPN’s Field Yates. This won’t be the final number for Kansas City when it comes to the amount of cap space they’ll carry into the 2023 NFL season. After the playoffs conclude, the NFL will do an audit of all incentives, bonuses, and triggers to calculate the final figure that the team will carry over into 2023.
Current projections expect the 2023 salary cap to exceed the $220 million mark. Including this expected carryover of their 2022 salary-cap space, the Chiefs should be right around the $25 million mark for 2023. Over The Cap projections put the team at $24,592,030 in cap space for the 2023 NFL season, but that’s before the team rids themselves of any contracts, extends any players, or restructures any of their current contracts. Brett Veach could have upwards of $75 million in cap space to use this season when it’s all said and done.
This salary-cap carryover is important because the Chiefs have a busy offseason ahead. There are quite a few pending free agents this offseason such as Orlando Brown Jr., JuJu Smith-Schuster, Mecole Hardman, Jerick McKinnon, Juan Thornhill, Carlos Dunlap and more. They’ll look to retain their own talent, but also supplement the team with some fresh faces once again.
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