Back in March, the Kansas City Chiefs placed the franchise tag on their free-agent left tackle Orlando Brown Jr., thereby committing themselves to either working out a long-term deal with the fifth-year player or paying him a guaranteed salary of $16.7 million for 2022.
Going into the NFL Draft, Kansas City general manager Brett Veach said that he expected to get into serious negotiations with Brown’s camp following the draft — that is, as soon as Brown had made up his mind on a new agent.
That didn’t happen until a week ago, when we learned that Brown would henceforth be represented by Michael Portner of the Delta Sports Group — who will be negotiating his first NFL contract.