AFC Notes: Maxx Crosby, Austin Ekeler, Chargers, Chiefs, Raiders

Chargers

Chargers HC Brandon Staley is relieved the team and veteran RB Austin Ekeler were able to reach a compromise to get him back in the fold before mandatory minicamp. Ekeler requested a trade this offseason after contract extension talks broke off but in the end the Chargers agreed to add $1.75 million in incentives to the final year of his deal to help get him back on board. 

Chiefs

• PFF’s Brad Spielberger highlights Chiefs DT Chris Jones as a veteran extension candidate this offseason and projects a three-year, $80 million deal for him with $55 million of that guaranteed. 
• That’s a new-money average of $26.67 million per season which falls further away from Rams DT Aaron Donald‘s market-leading $31.6 million than Jones probably would like, but Spielberger points out the defensive tackle extensions this offseason haven’t narrowed the gap with Donald as much as some expected.

Raiders

Raiders pass-rusher Maxx Crosby says he has a lot of goals in his NFL career, one of them being to be the best player at his position.

“I’ve got one goal – I want to be the best at what I do,” Crosby said, via Vincent Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “I’ve got many big goals I’m trying to achieve, and it takes more than being 50 percent in. It takes all my attention, all year round. . . . All the other stuff, I’m going to do my absolute best to be the best version of myself. But it’s a constant mission every single day no matter what it takes and what that sacrifice happens to be.”