{"id":479237,"date":"2024-02-28T16:03:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479237"},"modified":"2024-02-28T16:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T20:03:18","slug":"kansas-city-releases-valdes-scantling-saves-12-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kansas-city-releases-valdes-scantling-saves-12-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City releases Valdes-Scantling, saves 12 million dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Chiefs are cutting WR <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/marquez-valdes-scantling\/\">Marquez Valdes-Scantling<\/a>, saving the franchise 12 million dollars versus their salary cap.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud835\uddd5\ud835\udde5\ud835\uddd8\ud835\uddd4\ud835\uddde\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddda: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Chiefs<\/a> are releasing veteran wide receiver Marquez Valdes Scantling, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JFowlerESPN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JFowlerESPN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The move saves them $12 million in cap. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hbewcUBVPG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hbewcUBVPG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasrifootball\/status\/1762856012124491854?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The act came after the organization informed CB L&#8217;Jarius Sneed they are thinking about using the franchise tag on him and are willing to trade him if they don\u2019t ink a long-term contract.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City are expected to use the nonexclusive franchise tag, which is valued at 19 million dollars for the upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the team GM Brett Veach shared at the scouting combine in Indianapolis that he was prepared to use the franchise tag on L&#8217;Jarius or DT Jones if the franchise can\u2019t get them to re-inked by the beginning of the free agency in March.<\/p>\n<p>The wide receiver appeared in 2 campaigns with Kansas City after inking as a free agent from the Packers. Sneed caught 42 passes in his debut campaign and 21 in the past campaign, but was crucial during the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Marquez caught 8 passes for 116 yards, and a TD in the AFC Championship Game win against the Cincinnati Bengals after the 2022 campaign. He also scored the 1<sup>st<\/sup> TD in Chiefs Super Bowl LVIII triumph vs. the 49ers at the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Marquez Valdes-Scantling is being released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chiefs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Chiefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This crazy catch iced the AFC Championship game, sending Kansas City to Super Bowl LVIII! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tynq1kNhMu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tynq1kNhMu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFL UK (@NFLUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFLUK\/status\/1762858914356347289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Chiefs are cutting WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling, saving the franchise 12 million dollars versus their salary cap. \ud835\uddd5\ud835\udde5\ud835\uddd8\ud835\uddd4\ud835\uddde\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddda: The #Chiefs are releasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479238,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16919,17324],"news_category":[16703,14084],"gn_keywords":[18206,22718,17873],"acf":{"announce":"The Chiefs cut the wide receiver to save money.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479241,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479237\/revisions\/479241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479237"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479237"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}