Patrick Mahomes has no plans to be involved in Chiefs’ front-office decisions with megadeal kicking in

The Kansas City Chiefs failed of their bid to repeat as Super Bowl champions, falling simply shy of the title in a blowout loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Kansas Metropolis may have loads of questions that must be answered this offseason, together with which free brokers from the back-to-back AFC championship groups to retain and easy methods to get beneath the wage cap within the course of. 

Kansas Metropolis additionally has a mega contract set to kick in with Patrick Mahomes, which may have a significant affect on the wage cap (Mahomes is carrying a lifeless cap hit of over $60 million in 2021). Making over $450 million offers Mahomes immense energy throughout the franchise — which he would not plan on utilizing with regards to the Chiefs’ personnel selections. 

“To me, I simply go on the market and play,” Mahomes stated on a Zoom name Monday. “Clearly, you go searching and also you wish to have guys right here and also you wish to have guys in your roster, particularly guys you have constructed relationships with. However on the finish of the day we have now a terrific workers of men that basically scout, that basically have a look at gamers, beginning with (Chiefs common supervisor) Brett Veach, however going all the way in which down. 

“I’ve a complete perception in them that they’ll have good gamers on this workforce each single yr. That is the explanation I signed the contract that I did is I knew that we have been going to have a terrific roster each single yr I am right here.”

Kansas Metropolis will not be getting any affect from Mahomes on roster constructing and personnel selections, however Veach and head coach Andy Reid do plan on asking for his enter. The Chiefs will not let Mahomes at nighttime on what they plan on doing, even when he would not wish to to be the deciding issue. 

“That is type of the place he is at,” Reid stated. “He likes doing that and he is saved it that approach. However once more, we speak and Brett’s received a terrific relationship with him, and it is necessary to speak. I imply, we do not put a wall up there by any means. I feel most of all that Pat has full belief, as I do, in Brett and the way he goes about doing it.”