KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs added a second cornerback to the 2020 draft class, making a deal to move into the seventh round in selecting Tulane’s BoPete Keyes. The Chiefs sent their 2021 sixth-round selection to Tennessee in exchange for the No. 237 overall pick in the seventh round of this year’s draft. Chiefs area scout Willie Davis said …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Defensive end Mike Danna didn’t land an invite to the NFL Combine, and circumstances beyond his control wiped out his pro day at Michigan but when given the opportunity to showcase his skills at the East-West Shrine Bowl in January, he made the most of it. “I think that played a huge part of why I’m …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs lost versatile defensive back Kendall Fuller via free agency in the offseason but the club may have landed his replacement with fourth-round selection in L’Jarius Sneed. “You have long, fast kid with really good ball skills,” said Chiefs area scout Willie Davis. “Really smart, he understands how to play the position. He can play …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs opted for bolstering a thin linebacking corps in Friday night’s second round of the NFL draft, choosing Mississippi State’s athletic Willie Gay Jr. with the No. 63 overall selection. Head coach Andy Reid said the Chiefs feel they landed a first-round talent in a player who may have fallen down some team’s draft boards …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs doubled down on offense in the first round of the NFL Draft, landing LSU RB Clyde Edwards Helaire with the No. 32 choice of Thursday’s first round. Now general manager Brett Veach turns to other needs as the team enters night two with selections near the end of the second and third rounds. Kansas …
The Kansas City Chiefs selected running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire with number 32 in the first round of the NFL draft on Thursday night, and in doing so, did something Andy Reid has never been a part of before. That should tell us something.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Early Thursday evening, more than two hours before the NFL Draft started and more than six hours before the Chiefs went on the clocks for their first selection, general manager Brett Veach made the call. He told head coach Andy Reid and club chairman and CEO Clark Hunt LSU running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire would be his …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As the scouting process for the NFL Draft reaches its pick, Chiefs general manager Brett Veach gives head coach Andy Reid a group of players to evaluate. When Veach handed off the tape of LSU running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire, he invoked the name of a favorite player from Reid’s past in Philadelphia. “I told coach, I …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In the AFC West it’s all about keeping up with the Joneses – or rather the Mahomeses – so perhaps it’s no surprise that the Chiefs’ divisional rivals targeted offense in Thursday’s opening round of the 2020 NFL Draft. “I think teams certainly, they got to score some points against us,” Chiefs general manager Brett Veach …
