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Contract details for Chiefs DB Andrew Soroh

A look at the one-year deal for the newest Kansas City Chief.

The Kansas City Chiefs recently re-signed DB Andrew Soroh, who spent the 2019 offseason with the team. He started out as a minicamp tryout with the team and ultimately earned a 90-man roster spot. He was unable to make 53-man roster cuts and eventually latched on with the XFL’s New York Guardians, where he played during the 2019 season.

Soroh is back with the Chiefs and has a brand new contract. Here’s a look at Soroh’s base salary and cap numbers courtesy of Spotrac:

Year Base Salary Cap Hit Dead Cap
2020 $675,000 $675,000 $0

Soroh is basically making the same non-guaranteed salary on a one-year deal that players like Gehrig Dieter, Ryan Hunter, Chris Lammons and Alex Brown are making. These are the bottom of the roster guys who are on the cusp between the active roster and the practice squad. That might suggest where the Chiefs currently value and envision this player. At the same time, with no guaranteed money attached to the contract, it makes it very easy for Kansas City to release Soroh without hurting their salary cap space.

If Soroh sticks with the Chiefs in 2020, he’ll be an exclusive rights free agent in 2020. He actually does have an advantage over many of the rookies vying for a roster spot. He practiced and played in the preseason during 2019. This crop of rookies has yet to hit the practice field due to the coronavirus shutdowns.

This contract leaves the Chiefs with just over $6.2 million in cap space per the NFLPA’s public salary cap report.

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Chiefs to re-sign DB Andrew Soroh

After spending the offseason with Kansas City, Soroh spent the 2019 season playing with the XFL’s New York Guardians.

A move that has been in the works for months finally seems to be moving towards becoming official.

Back when the Kansas City Chiefs were in the frenzy of signing undrafted free agents following the 2020 NFL Draft, a former Chiefs defensive back announced that he’d rejoined the team. Then a few weeks passed with no official announcement and it seemed like perhaps he jumped the gun on his return to Kansas City. On Friday, David Canter of DEC Management announced that his client, Andrew Soroh, had signed with the Chiefs.

Soroh played college football for Florida Atlantic. He was a Chiefs’ rookie minicamp invite who was signed in 2019. He didn’t make 53-man roster cuts with Kansas City and wasn’t added to the practice squad during the 2019 season, so he pursued other opportunities outside of the NFL

During 2019, Soroh played for the XFL’s New York Guardians, recording 18 tackles, one QB Hit, one tackle for loss, one interception and one pass defended.

The decision to bring in Soroh is an intriguing one. He’ll add competitive depth and he knows the Chiefs’ system after learning it during the course of the 2019 preseason. That could provide an advantage over other players who don’t yet know the playbook and calls. Kansas City only added SMU’s Rodney Clemons to their safety group following the 2020 NFL Draft.

As injured players return to team facilities for rehab and treatment, perhaps this could signal that Juan Thornhill might be further behind in his recovery than originally believed.

The team will need to make a corresponding move in order to make room for Soroh on the 90-man roster. We’ll update you with that information as soon as we know it.