The Kansas City Chiefs will be keeping one key piece away from potential free agency this offseason.

 

Pro Bowl guard Trey Smith will receive the franchise tag, which is a one-year contract worth $23.4 million. The tag makes Smith the highest paid guard in the NFL, more than $2 million more than Philadelphia's Landon Dickerson.

 

Kansas City and Smith will have until July 15th to work out a long-term contract.

 

Smith is 25 years old and was a sixth-round pick out of Tennessee in the 2021 NFL Draft. He ranked 13th in the NFL in pass block win rate last season, and sixth in run block win rate. He allowed just 1.5 sacks, and committed just two penalties.

 

Smith has started 67 of a possible 68 games in his four seasons in the NFL, including all 13 postseason games.