Chiefs News Week of 5/9: What we learned this week

Chiefs’ Andy Reid provides Skyy Moore, Jody Fortson injury updates

Monday marked the tip of the Kansas City Chiefs‘ annual rookie minicamp. Chatting with the press proper after the ultimate session, the top coach talked about his two first-round draft picks — along with departed safety Tyrann Mathieu — and attended to some harm information.

First, he spoke about second-round rookie Skyy Moore, who was restricted for all three days as a result of a hamstring harm.

“He tweaked his hamstring earlier than he obtained right here,” mentioned Reid. “We’ll be able to go when he will get again.”

Reid additionally supplied a observe on tight finish Jody Fortson, who, in October, had surgery to repair the torn Achilles he suffered in the Chiefs’ Week 6 game in opposition to Washington.

“There’s an opportunity you get him in Part 3,” defined Reid, referring to the final part of the OTA program. “We’ll simply must see how that goes. If not, coaching camp. He’s achieved very effectively along with his rehab — and he’s one other a kind of that goes 100 miles an hour and desires to get going, however obtained to be sensible with that, too.

CB Jaylen Watson had given up hope that the Chiefs would draft him

Then we caught up with the story considered one of Kansas Metropolis’s seventh-round picks had given to reporters on Sunday.

The Chiefs hosted him on a top-30 visit last month. The go to left a optimistic impression on Watson — however after the staff spent first and fourth-round choices on cornerbacks Trent McDuffie and Joshua Williams, he strongly doubted the staff would take him.

“I wasn’t anticipating to go that late,” Watson admitted. “So I used to be type of down. Everybody was telling me, ‘Keep off your cellphone,’ as a result of I’m taking a look at each draft choose on Day 3 — as a result of I knew I used to be going to be a Day 3 man. Everybody simply saved aggravating me — and so they had been irritating. They didn’t perceive what was going by means of my head. So I separated myself from the household. Me and considered one of my shut pals went out to my automobile. We had been simply listening to music.

“I had already seen Kansas Metropolis had obtained two corners — and I actually wished to go to Kansas Metropolis, so I used to be like, ‘Maann.’ Then the decision. I noticed the Kansas Metropolis space code. Me and my good friend checked out one another, our eyes obtained tremendous large. They mentioned, ‘That is the Chiefs,’ and I used to be simply so excited. I simply began operating full pace down the road. Everybody in the home noticed me and so they had been like, ‘What’s incorrect? What’s incorrect? Who’s it?’ I used to be like, ‘It’s the Chiefs!’”

5 veteran free agents who could still help the Chiefs

Then on Tuesday, Brandon Kiley highlighted some gamers who may fill vital holes in Kansas Metropolis — headlined by a 35-year-old who continues to be enjoying at a excessive stage.

1. Defensive deal with Ndamukong Suh

Suh collected 12 sacks, 32 quarterback hits and 16 tackles for loss over the previous two seasons in Tampa Bay. The one defensive tackles with extra sacks throughout that stretch are Aaron Donald, Chris Jones, DeForest Buckner and Cam Heyward. For quarterback hits throughout that interval, solely Grady Jarrett and Jonathan Allen notched greater than Suh.

The ethical of the story? Suh can nonetheless play.

Defensive deal with can also be one of many solely positions at which the Chiefs may clearly use an improve. It’s additionally a one with no current excessive draft choose that Suh can be stopping from seeing enjoying time.

Once they signed Reed final yr, the Chiefs clearly noticed worth in including a veteran inside rusher. Suh’s position can be related: becoming a member of Jones on the inside to wreak havoc on passing downs.

Chiefs complete 7 transactions following rookie minicamp

We normally see the Chiefs make some roster strikes after their first have a look at the rookies — and on Tuesday, we got some.

The Chiefs introduced again each heart Austin Reiter and large receiver Gary Jennings, who had been waived on Could 5 to make room for undrafted free brokers forward of rookie minicamp.

The 6-foot-4, 300-pound Glaser joins the Chiefs after making a good impression during his tryout over the weekend. Glaser began 12 video games at guard for the Virginia Cavaliers in the course of the 2021 season, and his faculty soccer profession consists of expertise at each guard positions.

The Chiefs moved on from Gordon, who spent the offseason with the membership in 2021. The Chiefs had been unlikely to maintain 5 quarterbacks on the roster coming into the offseason — and meaning they will need to have favored what they noticed in Kent State undrafted free-agent Dustin Crum.

Brett Veach: in the draft’s first round, ‘It was really corner the whole time’

On Wednesday, we coated the Kansas Metropolis basic supervisor’s interview with Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, through which he spoke frankly concerning the trade-up to amass Washington cornerback Trent McDuffie.

On draft day, Philadelphia — which at one time or one other had held 4 of the 5 picks between 14 and 20 however went into draft day holding the fifteenth and 18th picks — traded into the thirteenth choose to pick Georgia defensive deal with Jordan Davis.

Then the Eagles made an enormous transfer, giving the 18th choose to the Tennessee Titans for large receiver A.J. Brown — which the Titans then used to take Arkansas wideout Treylon Burks.

And similar to that, two of the groups that Veach thought can be competing for McDuffie had been out of the image.

“That type of opened the door for us,” mentioned Veach, “as a result of I feel they may have gone [with a] nook. However with them making the commerce, we had been capable of double again [to] our dialog [with] New England and execute that.

“However it was actually nook the entire time for us. I feel it type of prompted Buffalo’s transfer — as a result of then, they moved up two spots to get the following nook. I feel [if] we had simply stayed there [at 29], each McDuffie and (Florida’s Kaiir) Elam [would have been] gone. So I feel that was a technique that labored out in our favor.”

Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen are becoming good friends off the field

After two of the AFC’s high quarterbacks attended the Formulation 1 Grand Prix occasion in South Florida over the weekend, the Buffalo Bills’ signal-caller spoke of his developing relationship with the league’s half-billion-dollar man.

“I’ve spent a pair instances round Patrick,” mentioned Allen, “however each time I’m round him he’s only a nice dude, he’s a fantastic persona, he’s enjoyable to be round. Clearly, all of the respect that I’ve for him on the sector. I feel it’s a unique vibe from what folks suppose.”

“After we step on that discipline, we’re imagined to be opponents — it’s the outdated mantra of you’ve obtained to hate your enemy, you already know — however I might say we’ve a very good relationship, particularly for the kind of video games that we are inclined to play in.

“He’s superior. He actually is. Love being round him.”

Chiefs schedule 2022: Dates, game times, opponents and more

Thursday was the league’s long-awaited schedule launch day — which started with NBC’s official announcement that Kansas Metropolis would play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday Evening Soccer in Week 4. All through the day, we tracked leaks of schedule information. By the official launch at 7 p.m., we knew the place 10 of the Chiefs’ 17 2022 video games would fall. Then it was only a matter of filling within the blanks.

John Dixon adopted along with his rundown of the best and worst games on Kansas City’s schedule. After which he joined Pete Sweeney, Ron Kopp and Rocky Magaña for a roundtable discussion of the coming season’s Chiefs games.

Predicting the Chiefs’ final record for the 2022 NFL season

Then on Friday morning, we introduced you a abstract of how Las Vegas oddsmakers were predicting the Chiefs’ 2022 record — and Ron made his game-by-game predictions for the yr.

Week 14: at Denver Broncos
Sunday, December 11, 7:20 p.m., NBC

These two AFC West foes might be enjoying for the primary time this season — in the midst of December. If I needed to assign that as a bonus to at least one staff, it’d be the Broncos. Quarterback Russell Wilson could have had time to get snug within the system along with his receivers. On the similar time, Wilson has a historical past of beginning seasons at an MVP tempo, however then fading down the stretch. I’m going to foretell Kansas Metropolis will maintain their stranglehold on this rivalry, successful their 14th-straight recreation in opposition to Denver.

Chiefs win (now 9-4 on the season)

Marquez Valdes-Scantling says he chose the Chiefs because it ‘seemed like home’

Then we closed out the week by masking the brand new Kansas Metropolis large receiver’s talk with CBS Sports’ Jim Rome, through which he mentioned that he decided on the Chiefs as a result of it felt like residence.

“Clearly the chance inside itself to exit and be a fantastic playmaker,” he informed Rome about his Kansas Metropolis choice. “Clearly, I had that chance wherever I went, however I feel this one was a greater match for me. Some issues they do offensively [were] interesting to me — and clearly, a quarterback like Pat (Mahomes) [who] goes to be right here for a very long time additionally was interesting. So these two issues — after which, clearly, getting right here and assembly all people. It appeared like a great match. It appeared like residence.”