Tyron Free to Leave Cowboys, Sign With Patrick Mahomes' Chiefs?

Tyron Smith To Leave Dallas Cowboys, Sign With Patrick Mahomes' Kansas City Chiefs? Rumor

FRISCO - The Kansas City Chiefs just won their third Super Bowl in five years, and the window is staying open for a "Three-Peat'' in part because MVP QB Patrick Mahomes is still just 28 years old.

Said the game's MVP on Monday of the idea of winning three straight: “Yeah, it’s legendary. No one’s ever done it.''

The best way for the Chiefs to approach doing it? Keep Mahomes upright. Meanwhile, in general, one area that could use improvement in KC is the offensive line.

Enter the weekend news that Tyron Smith about to divorce Dallas and enter free agency.

Interestingly, as great at the Chiefs are in so many ways, Pro Football Reference notes that in 2023 they allowed 164 pressures, the fourth-most in the NFL.

And yes, a healthy Tyron Smith would fix that.

Smith, 33, most assuredly wanted to keep playing in Dallas with the only team the future Hall of Famer has ever known. He is an institution here, and his family-like relationship with team owner Jerry Jones and the Joneses has always been key to his decisions ...

Including the one from a year ago that saw him take a drastic pay cut in order to stay.

Smith has a "reputation'' for having missed games over the past four seasons due to injury. (Dallas is surely eyeing help in the NFL Draft as a reflection of all of this.) But in 2023, in part due to a maintenance plan that lightened his practice-week workload, he played 14 games - and he played so well that he  earned a second-team All-Pro nod.

Spotrac estimates Tyron's market value as being a one-year deal worth $7.4 million. The Chiefs can easily manage that; they have $22 million in cap room.

Or maybe the Cowboys think a number like that is appropriate … and Tyron’s reps have done the research of what a new suitor might bid.

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Tyron's makeup is such that "ring-chasing,'' in the traditional sense, might not fit him - even as the Chiefs are clearly closer to grabbing more jewelry than the Cowboys are. But Tyron has earned the right to pursue what he wishes, how he wishes. And barring a Dallas change of heart, he’s going to be free to do just that.