KANSAS CITY, Mo. – It was fourth-and-1, the kind of short-yardage situation the Chiefs have converted countless times. Patrick Mahomes walked to the line, glanced toward the sideline, and uttered the line that has already become legend in team circles: “This play never (bleeping) works, man!”

The moment captured everything about Kansas City’s offense under Andy Reid: a relentless search for the next edge, the next wrinkle, the next weapon that turns the ordinary into the unstoppable. And right now, that weapon has a name—Jeremiyah Love.

Don’t be so quick to rule out the Chiefs drafting the Notre Dame running back on April 23 simply because they signed Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker last month. After all, the Chicago Bulls drafted a guard named Michael Jordan in 1984 even though they already had Quintin Dailey, Ennis Whatley and Mitchell Wiggins on the roster.

Love isn’t just depth. He’s a chess piece Reid has been waiting for.

The numbers and the tape tell the story. Love was an elite pass-catcher at Notre Dame—one of the best hybrid running backs in recent college memory. He made a spectacular one-handed touchdown catch against Texas A&M. In the first half against Arkansas alone, he posted two touchdown catches and two rushing touchdowns. He finished the season with 1.84 yards per route run (280 yards on 152 routes), a figure that ranked fifth among 57 power-conference backs with at least 20 targets, according to analyst CJ Freel.

That production isn’t a fluke. Any scout who watched Notre Dame will tell you the same thing: Love can line up in the backfield, in the slot, or split wide and win at every level. The Chiefs would play him as a wide receiver and a running back—the same way Jacksonville used Travis Hunter as both a first-round wide receiver and a first-round cornerback after trading up to draft him second overall a year ago.

This isn’t redundancy. It’s multiplication.

Brett Veach said last week that the Chiefs plan to see what they have in Walker as a pass-catcher. Fair enough. But that was never Walker’s strength in Seattle, where the Seahawks routinely took him off the field in obvious passing situations in favor of Zach Charbonnet and even George Holani. Love would be the perfect complement—dangerous out of the backfield, impossible to cover from the slot, and ready to step in as the starter if Walker’s injury history ever resurfaces.

Add in Brashard Smith, the wide receiver who converted to running back and spent most of last season warming up with the Chiefs’ wide receivers rather than the backfield group, and the picture becomes clear. Kansas City would suddenly possess two versatile weapons who blur the lines between position groups in exactly the way Reid has always loved.

And Reid—68 years old, in his 28th year as an NFL head coach, grandfather, future Hall of Famer—still has that fire. Legend has it he once convinced Mike Holmgren to use a play he got from a Lambeau Field custodian; the Packers turned it into a touchdown. Don’t believe for a second he wouldn’t be in Veach’s ear, urging the front office to use some of the considerable draft capital the Chiefs have stockpiled over the next two years to move up and secure Love.

Draft expert Daniel Jeremiah put it plainly on Friday’s edition of The Pat McAfee Show: “If he starts to get toward 7, I would think you might even get some phone calls, you know, from some teams. I know Kansas City already signed Walker but, I mean, this guy paired up with Kenneth Walker, Kansas City would be pretty insane.”

Insane as in sensationally explosive.

Imagine the possibilities in Reid’s creative brain: Love motioning across the formation, Walker in the backfield, both threatening to take the top off the defense or turn a check-down into a house call. Mahomes hasn’t had this kind of dual-threat versatility since his very first snaps in Kansas City. The records that fell in those early years—yardage totals, comeback wins, sheer unpredictability—could be coming back.

The Chiefs aren’t done building. They’re just getting started.

Love isn’t a luxury. He’s the next weapon. And when he steps on the field in Arrowhead next fall, Kansas City’s offense won’t just be good.

It will be unstoppable.