The Kansas City Chiefs have locked up one of their best special teams players with a new four-year contract. Kingston’s Cory Greenwood has signed a four-year, $2.75 million contract to keep him in Kansas City for the next few years.
Greenwood was originally a No. 3 overall pick in the 2010 CFL draft, but decided to go to the NFL when the Chiefs offered him a contract. He’s been at the top of the ranks in special teams tackles for the Chiefs over the last two seasons.
Greenwood is a high school graduate of Regiopolis-Notre Dame (oldest Catholic school in Canada) and then went on to Concordia University in Montreal where he won the President’s Trophy as the CIS top defensive player his last season.
The contract calls for Greenwood to make a base salary of $540,000 if he’s on the roster in 2012, well up from the $405,000 he received in 2011 and the $325,000 in 2010. The base salary would go up each year to a high of $745,000 in 2015. A small contract by NFL standards but much higher than what a CFL contract would pay Greenwood.
Greenwood told his hometown newspaper, the Whig, “To think I could possibly make that much money playing football is unbelievable, really.”
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