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Photo by Ryan Kang/Getty Images Kansas City’s fourth-year right guard is getting a bonus for the 2023 season. On Monday, the National Football League announced that it is distributing almost $394 million in Performance-Based Pay (PBP) to its players for the 2023 season. This program has awarded more than $2.4 billion of supplemental compensation to the league’s players since it was first established in 2002 as part of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the league and NFL Players Association. Among the players who will get a bonus is Kansas City Chiefs’ right guard Trey Smith, who will receive more than $865,000 in additional compensation for 2023 — the league’s seventh-highest figure — because players with higher percentages of playing time (and lower salaries) tend to receive the most benefit from the program. Smith played 96% of the team’s offensive snaps (and 17% of the special teams snaps) while earning $1.1 million in base salary. Here are the 25 NFL

Taylor Bell of Chiefs Studios Blog This Day 2 draft prospect would be a great fit with Kansas City’s defensive line. Since Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Charles Omenihu tore his ACL during January’s AFC Championship game, he is likely to miss all of training camp — and could begin the 2024 season on the team’s physically-unable-to-perform (PUP) list. In addition, defensive end Mike Danna remains a free agent. So even though they’ve invested two of their recent first-round draft picks into the position, the Chiefs are still in the market for defensive ends. Considering this (and their other needs), it doesn’t seem likely that Kansas City would acquire one in the first round of April’s NFL Draft in Detroit. But on Day 2, the Chiefs could consider a defensive end like Alabama’s Chris Braswell. Let’s see what he could bring to Kansas City. Background Coming out of Baltimore’s St. Frances Academy, Braswell was a four-star, top-40 recruit who had offers from Ge