Dustin Colquitt Re-signs With the Chiefs

by Chris Thorman on Feb 28, 2008 3:05 PM CST in 2008 Kansas City Chiefs Off Season

From WPI:

Warpaint Illustrated has learned that Chiefs punter Dustin Colquitt will remain in Kansas City at least through 2012. Today he signed a five-year contract.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but now that Colquitt has been re-signed there’s no chance he’ll hit the market as an unrestricted free agent at the end of next season. Thursday was the deadline for teams to sign restricted free agents to one-year tender offers.

I'm not complaining, more curious when I ask -- why did it take so long to re-sign Colquitt?

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My thoughts exactly!

I almost posted a diary on this topic earlier today.

How could the Chiefs not have wrapped up one of the most valuable players (and it pains me to write that about a punter) before FA?

Obviously, the same situation is occurring with Jared Allen, but Allen commands a huge deal. A punter does not.

Why must even the simplest of contract negotiations go down to the wire or blow up in our faces with Carl?

by DThomasReigns on Feb 28, 2008 3:13 PM CST reply actions

Down to the wire

Can't imagine this was a difficult decision for either side. Colquitt wanted to come back and the Chiefs wanted him back so he wasn't high on the priority list to get a deal done right away.

I wouldn't look to far into this. He signed a 5-year deal, that's all that matters, right?

by Joel Thorman on Feb 28, 2008 6:27 PM CST reply actions

Happy he is here long term, but

did it have to come down to the 11th hour?

by DThomasReigns on Feb 28, 2008 7:25 PM CST up reply actions

I don't think he was an UFA this year

He was after 2008, right?

Even if he was a RFA this year we could put the highest tender on him.

by Joel Thorman on Feb 28, 2008 7:34 PM CST up reply actions

Yeah

the quote says after next season he would be a UFA.

We had a whole season in front of us. It wasn't viewed to be a problem to get a deal done.

by Joel Thorman on Feb 28, 2008 7:36 PM CST up reply actions

But why did we have to risk it?

I know he was a RFA.

He may be the best punter we have had in 20 years, and we drafted him, and we have plenty of room to offer him fair market value, and drafting your own and signing your own is the new blueprint.

Why did it come down to the last second, as usual?

by DThomasReigns on Feb 28, 2008 8:00 PM CST up reply actions