Chiefs release WR Jeremy Maclin - should Pace be interested?

Well...the Chiefs are still in cap hell. When accounting all of their salaries they are still over the salary cap by 2 mill. They are under on the top 51...which is good for now...but they need to make sure they stay there once the season starts. Maclin carried a 12.4 million dollar cap charge this season, so if they did not cut him they would not have been able to sign their draft class, as with him they would have only been 2 million under the cap on the top 51. Cutting Maclin saves them 10 mill on the cap this year....hence why they cut him. Nobody else was going to give them that kind of room. Once their draft class is signed they'll only have about 5 mill in cap space left.