Kansas City Chiefs: Chris Jones could get Dee Ford treatment
As the offseason gets underway for the Kansas City Chiefs, one of the biggest storylines will be what the future entails for Chris Jones. It wouldn’t be shocking if he received similar treatment to what Dee Ford received a year ago.
Even though it’s night and day from how Kansas City Chiefs fans feel about Chris Jones and how they feel about Dee Ford, the two could find themselves in a similar boat in the coming weeks.
If you will, rewind to roughly this time last year when the Chiefs had to make a decision about what to do with Ford, who was at the end of his rookie deal. The Chiefs ended up franchise tagging Ford in early March and ten days later he was shipped to San Francisco in exchange for a second round pick in 2020.
Fans later discovered the reason Ford was traded (no it wasn’t because of him jumping offsides in the AFC title game a month and a half prior); It was because the Chiefs ended up trading for Frank Clark of the Seahawks to essentially replace Ford’s production.
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Jones is a much more popular player than Ford ever was, but if fans are being honest with themselves, they know it’s going to be difficult to afford Jones past this season. The Chiefs could very well end up doing to Jones exactly what they did to Ford last March and it wouldn’t shock anyone.
Jones could be slapped with the franchise tag and traded not long after in order to bring back more draft picks, which would be needed, as Kansas City has just five selections at the moment. With Patrick Mahomes likely getting paid this offseason (and a huge chunk of change at that), extending him and keeping Jones around just doesn’t seem likely.
The difference is that Jones seems to REALLY want to stay in Kansas City with the organization that drafted him. It’d make sense for him to, as he’s had great success with the Chiefs and capped it off the right way by winning a Super Bowl – a game in which he had a key batted ball in order to help cause an incompletion.
Is there any truth to that though? Players say things like that all the time, but at the end of the day, money talks. Jones can make money this offseason, but it probably won’t be with the Kansas City Chiefs.
That’s always been the plan. From day 1
— Chris Jones (@StoneColdJones) February 7, 2020
While Chris Jones is head and shoulders more popular than Dee Ford, don’t be the least bit shocked when he winds up getting treated similarly during free agency; A franchise tag thrown in with a trade and receiving draft picks in exchange seem likely.
Hopefully the KC Chiefs can find a way to keep Chris Jones, but it won’t surprise me at all if he’s tagged and traded by the end of the free agent frenzy.