We’ll continue here a position-by-position look at how the Kansas City Chiefs are utilizing their salary-cap space with the punter, kicker and long-snapper. ESPN Stats & Information showed the Chiefs to have about $2.9 million in available cap space, which is 30th among the NFL’s 32 teams.

Salary-cap commitments: $5,615,667. Punter Dustin Colquitt, $3.8 million; kicker Cairo Santos, $510,667; long-snapper Brandon Hartson, $435,000; long-snapper Jorgen Hus, $435,000; long-snapper James Winchester, $435,000. Note: Only the 51 highest figures currently count against the Chiefs’ salary cap, according to NFL rules, so all of these salaries may not figure into the team’s current cap number.

Percent of Chiefs’ total salary cap: 3.9

NFL average salary-cap spending on kicking specialists: $5,090,937

Chiefs’ rank in kicking specialist spending: 13th among 32 teams

Analysis: Colquitt has the second-highest cap number among NFL punters behind only Mike Scifres of the San Diego Chargers. Despite that, the Chiefs are over the NFL average in spending in this area because they’re carrying three long-snappers. Each makes the minimum wage and two of them will be gone by the time the regular season begins, so by then the Chiefs should be below the league average in spending here.