The are wasting no time in securing for at least the 2020 season. The reining Duncan Robinson Jersey Super Bowl champions are going to place the franchise tag on their star defensive lineman, according to . The window for using the franchise tag opens on Thursday.Rapoport adds that Kansas City views Jones in its long-term plans and hopes that the franchise tag really serves as a placeholder for a bigger, more stable deal to get done at some point.it seemed unlikely that the Chiefs were going to let Jones, who was looked at as arguably the top non-quarterback hitting the market this offseason, have the chance to speak with other teams. The 25-year-old has been an absolute force since they took him in the second round of the 2016 NFL Draft out of Mi si sippi State, and his dominance was on full display this past season. One could make that case that he should have been Super Bowl LIV MVP after his strong display against the offense. In that 31-20 comeback win, Jones terrorized Niners quarterback as he batted away three pa ses and constantly applied pre sure along the offensive line. Jones has a much bigger body of work outside of that Super Bowl performance, however, as Pro Football Focus notes he registered 58 total pre sures in 2019, the . He also has 31 sacks in the previous three seasons.With Jones now, at the very least, locked in for 2020, the Chiefs have the much more difficult task of hammering out a long-term deal. According to , Jones would have seen something in the range of a five-year, $96.4 million deal on the open market. Now, it's up to Kansas City to get somewhere in that ballpark. General manager Brett Veach that re-signing Jones is "certainly a priority for us.""We'd certainly would like to see if we can work something out with him, and I think the tandem of Chris Jones and is something any team would want, and we're going to work hard to see if we can get that done," he said.Jones has also "a Chief for life," so there seems to be incentive on both sides to get a deal done. Jae Crowder Jersey