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.
