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Timeline: Chris Jones’ contract negotiations and how we got here

The Kansas City Chiefs have until July 15 — that’s a week from this coming Wednesday — to sign a long term deal with their star defensive tackle Chris Jones. If they can’t, Jones will play on the franchise tag in 2020 — or choose to sit out.

We thought it would be helpful to recap all the reporting we’ve done on the twists and turns on this story over the last year and a half

December 1, 2018

In a late-July session with reporters at Kansas City Chiefs training camp in St.