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Published on 06/23/2007 at Sat Jun 23 07:35.
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Quick Hit – Trade for Chiefs’ Wesley in the Works

Posted Sat Jun 23rd by

The Kansas City Star reports that the Chiefs and Broncos, bitter AFC West rivals, are talking trade. I mentioned in yesterday’s AFC West Watch – Secondary post that Safety Greg Wesley was disgruntled, and now it seems my #4 ranked secondary is willing to make my #1 ranked unit even better.

From the article:

A seven-year starting safety, Wesley is as unhappy with his situation as Johnson is with his. He is, for now at least, a backup to Jarrad Page and Bernard Pollard and would like a trade.

The Chiefs have a willing trade partner for Wesley in the Denver Broncos. The teams have agreed on terms of draft-choice compensation, but the Chiefs have yet to sign off on the deal in fear of sending him to a division rival.

In most cases, that’s reason enough not to make a deal. In this case, it’s not. Page and Pollard don’t need Wesley’s looming presence. The Chiefs have capable safety reserves in Jon McGraw and Chad Williams and will probably release Wesley and his $2.7 million base salary, anyway.

In that case, the Broncos would get him for nothing.

Of course, the rivalry between the Chiefs and Broncos will likely get in the way of this deal getting done, and so the Chiefs will likely cut Wesley anyway. In which case we could pursue the Safety for free.

It does make me wonder how we can possibly afford all of these players, and how in the world we’re going to re-sign defensive playmakers like D.J. Williams and Champ Bailey in the next year or two. I wouldn’t mind the trade – Wesley has had better stats than any of our Safeties besides John Lynch over the past two years. His $2.7 million base salary is pricey, though, and so I would much better prefer picking him up in free agency, where his price tag is possibly lower and the compensation is null.

Of course, the Chiefs know this… hence the real possibility that the Broncos could be dealing with the enemy, and that the deal could come to fruition in the next few days.