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Biggest remaining needs for NFL contenders ahead of post-June 1 cuts: Chiefs, Ravens could target OL help | CBS Sports

Kansas City Chiefs: OL

They didn’t ignore the front after getting torched in Super Bowl LIX, retaining Trey Smith, signing Jaylon Moore and drafting Josh Simmons early. The question is, are they actually any better in the trenches? The tackles, in particular, are projections.

Which QBs have the most help? Ranking all 32 NFL supporting casts | FOX Sports

10. Kansas City Chiefs

I’d just like to point out that the trio of Hollywood Brown, Rashee Rice and Xavier Worthy have yet to play a single game together. As excited as we were for their new look receiver group in 2024, Brown went down during the preseason and Rice was lost for the year in September, and the Chiefs still made it to the Super Bowl. If all three of those guys are healthy and ready to roll, along with a healthier Isiah Pacheco, I think it makes a world of difference. Losing Joe Thuney hurts, but between the additions of Jaylon Moore and Josh Simmons, I’m trusting that the Chiefs can get good enough left tackle play to mitigate his absence. Oh, and did I mention that Andy Reid is still designing and calling the plays? Don’t let last season’s slog color your perception of these guys too much. If their receivers are available, this could be the most explosive Chiefs offense we’ve seen since Tyreek Hill was traded.

Every NFL Team’s Worst Trade of the Last 10 Years | Bleacher Report

Kansas City Chiefs Trade for Frank Clark

The Year: 2019

The Kansas City Chiefs haven’t made many mistakes during the Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes era. Since the latter took over as the full-time starter in 2018, Kansas City has at least reached the AFC Championship Game every year.

However, Kansas City’s 2019 trade for pass-rusher Frank Clark was a bit of a miss.

Clark was coming off of a 13-sack season with the Seattle Seahawks and had just been given the franchise tag. The Chiefs had a Pro Bowl pass-rusher in Dee Ford but traded him, then decided to trade a 2019 first-round pick and a 2020 conditional second-rounder for Clark—the Chiefs and Seahawks also swapped 2019 third-round selections.

That was a pretty significant price for a good-not-great pass-rusher, especially considering the trade didn’t come with any long-term team control. Kansas City then had to sign him to a five-year, $104 million extension to make it more than a short-term commitment.

Unfortunately, the Chiefs never got a great return on investment. Clark made three Pro Bowls and was a part of two Super Bowl-winning teams, but his production never matched what the Chiefs paid to get and keep him. He only stuck in Kansas City for four seasons and averaged less than six sacks per year with the franchise.

This wasn’t a disaster of a deal. In retrospect, though, passing on 2019 prospects like Byron Murphy, Deebo Samuel and A.J. Brown to acquire Clark may have been a mistake.

PFF Tight End Rankings: Top 32 ahead of the 2025 NFL season | PFF

7. Travis Kelce, Kansas City Chiefs

While Kelce has been the second-most-valuable tight end over the past two seasons, per PFF WAR, 2024 represented the lowest-graded season of his career (71.7). Age looks to be catching up to the future Hall of Famer, as his 91.4 PFF overall grade from 2022 appears to be a thing of the past.

Sando: My favorite offseason move by every NFL team | The Athletic

Kansas City Chiefs

I’m betting on defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo maximizing the top two cornerbacks Kansas City added: veteran Kristian Fulton, who played well for the Chargers last season, and third-round pick Nohl Williams, who can play nickel and safety. Both project as physical pieces for Spagnuolo to utilize. They are surer bets than the players Kansas City added to address its issues at left tackle.

Biggest remaining offseason priority for each AFC team: QB1 for Browns, Colts, Steelers? | NFL.com

Kansas City Chiefs

Top priority: Determine the left side of the offensive line.

Lose a Super Bowl, revamp the O-line. It’s GM Brett Veach’s MO. After trading Joe Thuney, the Chiefs signed Jaylon Moore, a former swing tackle in San Francisco with 793 career snaps, per Next Gen Stats. Kingsley Suamataia, a 2024 second-rounder who struggled at tackle last year, moves to left guard to battle former undrafted free agent Mike Caliendo. Then there is 2025 first-rounder Josh Simmons, who could usurp Moore for the starting left tackle role if healthy in his return from a torn patellar tendon. In an ideal world, Simmons is ready to go and Suamataia seamlessly moves inside to replace Thuney, one of the best guards of his generation. Regardless of how things shake out, the Chiefs are poised to be young on the left side of Patrick Mahomes’ offensive line.

Around the NFL

Caleb Williams addresses book excerpt, says he loves being a Bear | ESPN

Following Chicago’s second OTA practice that was open to the media, Williams delivered a three-minute, 55-second opening statement that addressed his feelings about the Bears related to the predraft process.

Excerpts from author Seth Wickersham’s upcoming book, “American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback,” revealed that Williams and his father, Carl, had considered ways for the former Heisman Trophy winner to avoid being drafted by the Bears.

Williams said that the book’s excerpts have been a “distraction” over the past two weeks, so he wanted to address it publicly for the first time.

‘I can be great,’ QB Justin Fields says of fresh start with Jets | ESPN

“I think I can be great,” Fields said Thursday after the Jets’ fifth OTA practice. “That’s been the goal for me my whole life, my whole career. I think the sky’s the limit for this team, for this offense, but we do have a long way to go.”

Fields, who signed a two-year, $40 million contract in March, is on his third team, playing for his fourth offensive coordinator in five years. His new playcaller is first-year coordinator Tanner Engstrand, most recently the Detroit Lions’ passing-game coordinator. The Jets’ new scheme will have a Detroit flavor, so Fields is spending a lot of time — with the coaches and on his own — studying Lions tape.

“He’s obviously a physically talented player,” Engstrand said, speaking to the local media for the first time. “Everybody talks about the running — well, the guy’s got an arm, too, and he does a great job with that.

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Chiefs News: Rashee Rice has no limitations at team OTAs

“He’s actually one of the guys under the weather,” said Reid. “So we’ve kept him at home here. But in Phase 2, he was great. He just wasn’t able to go this week, so we kept him out, away from the guys.”

Quarterback Patrick Mahomes took it a step further, describing that Rice has looked like himself as he returns following the devastating knee injury he sustained in Week 4 of the 2024 season.

“He looks like Rashee,” said Mahomes. “Having the injury, it sucked, but happening so early in the season, he was back like right when the offseason started. And so he was up here working hard — extremely hard — and he was back home working extremely hard. I was throwing with him in Dallas a little bit, and then getting him back out here, and there’s no limitations.

“He’s out there playing, he’s making plays on the football field. He’s explosive; he looks fast. You saw the start of last season.”

In just three games last season, Rice caught 24 passes for 288 yards and two touchdowns. Though that is admittedly a small sample size, it makes for an average of 96 yards per game.

“I think he can be one of the best receivers in the league,” added Mahomes. “And so just to have him with Xavier [Worthy], Hollywood [Brown] and all these other guys that we have, it’s another position I think (general manager) [Brett] Veach has done a great job of bringing in competition, so that we can go out there and make a lot of plays.”

Social media to make you think

1:00 of #Chiefs OTAs … new Chiefs QB Gardner Minshew, DL Jerry Tillery, Chris Jones is present with most of the DLs. FAU in his new #91 along with Jared Wiley (who has not returned and still has leg sleeve on) – and Steve Spagnuolo spending quality time with Chamarri Conner. pic.twitter.com/u4lk2qao8H

— Harold R. Kuntz (@HaroldRKuntz3) May 29, 2025