There isn't a specific blueprint for constructing a championship caliber roster within the constraints of the salary cap. Financial resources can be allocated in a variety of ways.Super Bowl teams have been built with quarterbacks having small cap numbers. That's the case with the of the last two seasons. Kansas City is attempting to become the first team since the 2004 to repeat as Super Bowl champions. Teams devoting significantly more of the salary cap to the quarterback position, such as the 2016 and 2019 , have also gotten to the Super Bowl. A big disparity exists for Super Bowl LV. The following chart outlines the salary cap charges for the and Chiefs key contributors at each position and on special teams. That's 31 players for the Chiefs and 30 for the Buccaneers. Both teams have 16 players on defense. The Chiefs have one more player on the offensive side of the ball than Buccaneers, who utilize 14 players. Dead money, a salary cap charge for a player no longer on a team's roster, is tracked as well. The NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement's $235 daily amount for participating in a team's voluntary offseason workout program is included in the cap numbers.BuccaneersChiefsQB$25,007, 520$5,354,058RB$4 Los Angeles Dodgers Jersey ,428,707$2,614,201WR$12,447,121$36,460,176TE$14,264,100$11,218,400OL$35,330,246$32,175,028EDGE$33,961,330$25,616,183DT$14,684,743$16,655,621LB$17,514,670$18,827,020CB$4,377,528$4,935,686S$2,256,157$22,138,837ST$4,140,040$4,830,740Dead money$3,513,208$14,324,722Each NFL team's actual salary cap (known as adjusted salary cap) is typically different from the NFL's set amount because unused cap room can be carried over from one year to the next year and other adjustments can further increase or decrease cap space. The actual salary cap is Gavin Lux Jersey currently $198.2 million.Only the have a larger adjusted salary cap than the Chiefs, which is $223.019 million, according to NFLPA data. The league-wide average is $210,845,791. The Buccaneers are below this figure with an adjusted salary cap of $204.782 million.The Chiefs have the NFL's third most total cap expenditures with $217.922 million while the Buccaneers approximate the $200,995,166 league wide average. Tampa Bay is at $200.2 million. Kansas City's key contributor cap spending is distributed almost evenly on offense ($87.82 million) and defense ($88.17 million). Tampa Bay's skews heavily to the offense. It's just under $91.5 million offensively to slightly over $78.5 million defensively.Quarterback becoming the NFL's highest paid player was expected. Landing the most lucrative contract in American team sports history at $450 million over 10 years (worth up to $500 million with incentives) took practically everybody by surprise. Mahomes' 2020 cap number remained practically the same after signing his blockbuster contract extension. This is the final year for the Chiefs being able to take advantage of a Matt Beaty Jersey small cap number with the 2017 10th overall pick. It's scheduled to take a dramatic jump next season.Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians was intent on upgrading at quarterback after going 7-9 in 2019 with . ended his 20 year tenure with the Patriots to join the Buccaneers. He signed a fully guaranteed two-year, $50 million deal worth up a maximum of $59 million with incentives. The Buccaneers used a "pay as you go" contract structure where a player's cash and salary cap numbers are the same in each contract year because there isn't a signing bonus that would be prorated over the life of the contract (for a maximum of five years).There are $4.5 million of annual incentives in Brady's contract. $2.25 million are for individual performance. The remainder are based on Tampa Bay's playoff succe s.Brady earned $562,500 each for ranking in the NFL's top five in touchdown pa ses (or throwing at least 25 touchdowns) and pa sing yards. Because Brady participated in least 75 percent of Tampa Bay's offensive plays (95.43 percent playtime) during the regular season, he made $500,000 for the Buccaneers qualifying for the playoffs, another $250,000 for the team beating the in a Wild Card playoff game, an additional $500,000 by eliminating the in the Divisional Playoffs and an extra $500,000 by winning the NFC Championship Game. A Super Bowl LV victory is also worth $500,000. Brady has earned $2.875 million of the $4.5 million in incentives to date.Running backNeither team is making much of an investment at running back. The biggest cap charge is ($2.5 million), who signed a one-year, $2 million deal (worth up to $3.5 million through incentives) with the Buccaneers after being released by the at the roster cut down. Mookie Betts Jersey The Chiefs used the 32nd overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft on ($1,970,799 cap number). He is Kansas City's leading ball carrier.Wide receiverKansas City's biggest offensive cap expenditures are at wide receiver. Nearly three times as much is being allocated by the Chiefs although the Buccaneers have the more talented receiving unit. and have the third and fifth highest 2020 cap numbers for wide receivers with $17.74 million and $15,879,200 respectively. The Buccaneers collective wide receiver cap expenditures are le s than either number. Watkins took a $5 million pay cut to $9 million with the ability to make a total of $16 million because of incentives for this season to remain in Kansas City. ' cap number was right up there with Hill's before an early September salary conversion to create $9,562,500 of cap space to lower his figure to $8,394,080 for the Buccaneers. ($2,338,561 cap number) is in the final year of his rookie contract. He should be a hot commodity in free agency provided the Buccaneers don't designate him as a franchise player. The Buccaneers signed to a contract with a base value of $1 million ($750,000 in base salary and $31,250 for each game on the active roster) worth up to $2.5 million through incentives for the remainder of the season after mi sing the first eight games serving a suspension for violating the NFL's Personal Conduct Policy.Tight endTight end features the previous standard at the position, , and the current standard, . Gronkowski ended his one-year retirement to join Brady in Tampa. The Buccaneers had to give the Patriots a 2020 fourth round to get Gronkowski (and a 2020 seventh round pick) since New England still held his rights. The final year of the six-year, $54 million extension he signed in 2012 with a $10 million salary, which had tolled during retirement, was reinstated.Kelce signed a four-year, $57.25 million extension averaging $14,312,500 per year Curtis Granderson Jersey with an extremely team friendly structure in August to become the league's second highest tight end. His $11,218,400 2020 cap number, which was second among tight ends, remained the same in the extension.Offensive lineBoth teams have prioritized the offensive line. Kansas City will be without both starting tackles, which has their biggest fin