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What Are the Chiefs’ Main Priorities For the Summer? SI.com
The Kansas City Chiefs will have a chip on their shoulder next season. Everyone remembers how they got beat in Super Bowl LIX and they did play a good football game that day. The Chiefs know that they could have made history, but fell short. Now heading into the new season, they will use having that bad taste in their mouth as motivation that will be there all season long. The Chiefs are coming.
The Chiefs this offseason did have a lot of turnover to their key players from last season’s team, but one thing that they have done well over the years is bringing in their own players the following season and having similar success. Next season, the Chiefs will have to do that.
Chiefs analyst says Buffalo Bills are only team Kansas City respects | Sporting News
“The Bills are the only team in the AFC Chiefs fans have any respect for,” Verderame said while joining me on The Pump Fake.
Verderame adds that the Cincinnati Bengals are the one caveat, but with Lou Anarumo gone, they are less of a threat. And also says that while Lamar Jackson is difficult to gameplan for, the Chiefs have only lost one game against Jackson and Chiefs fans know if they play their best, they will beat Baltimore.
It’s all but certain Allen and Mahomes will meet in the playoffs once again, but will Allen and Buffalo finally be able to break through?
Young Chiefs Playmaker is Clear Cut Candidate as OTAs Begin | MSN.com
One of those players who are serious cut candidates is fan favorite and talented playmaker Carson Steele. The 22-year-old back benefited from being listed as a fullback as a rookie and played a significant role, especially early in the season. Mainly used as a run blocker and short-yardage runner, Steele showed intriguing flashes at times but made costly mistakes at others.
Steele doesn’t have dominant physical and athletic tools, and struggled with fumbles in his first season in the NFL. The Chiefs signed Elijah Mitchell in free agency and selected Brashard Smith in the 2025 NFL Draft. Isiah Pacheco and Kareem Hunt are returning, leaving Steele all the way down in the pecking order.
Chiefs’ RB Pacheco Ready to Return to Form In 2025 | SI.com
Starting running back Isiah Pacheco was injured for most of the season in 2024. He did not return until late in the season, but even then, he could not get back to his old form. It could also have been because he rushed back from injury. After all, the team was making another Super Bowl run. You can even see that it was not the same Pacheco late in the year in 2024.
During his time gone last season, the Chiefs then brought in veteran running back Kareem Hunt, who was a former member of the Chiefs. He showed a little spark, but it did not last long. But the time Pacheco came back, Hunt was struggling as well. The Chiefs could not get anything going with both of them playing together.
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Travis Hunter marries fiancée Leanna De La Fuente ahead of first Jaguars training camp | Yahoo.com
Travis Hunter will enter his first NFL training camp as a married man.
The Jacksonville Jaguars rookie married his fiancée Leanna De La Fuente on Saturday in a ceremony in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a month after
becoming the No. 2 overall pick of the 2025 NFL Draft.
The celebration included the couple cutting the ribbon on one heck of a gift: a Brabus XL 800, a car with a price tag starting at over $700,000. It’s unclear if the gift is from Hunter or someone else, but it made for quite a reveal.
WR Brandin Cooks on Saints’ QB battle: ‘It’s going to be fun to watch that competition’ | NFL.com
The last time Brandin Cooks wore a New Orleans Saints uniform, he was catching passes from Drew Brees in 2016.
Nine seasons later, Cooks is back in the Big Easy and will most likely be working with a young quarterback for his 12th NFL campaign.
A three-way QB competition is brewing between 2025 second-round pick Tyler Shough, 2024 fifth-round selection Spencer Rattler and 2023 fourth-round pick Jake Haener, and Cooks says it’s been good to watch the battle throughout the offseason so far.
“Yeah, absolutely it should bring the best out of you,” Cooks told reporters Thursday, via the team website. “It’s fun seeing those guys compete. All three of them are having a great spring. So, it’s going to be fun to watch that competition.”
Peyton Manning: Jim Irsay turned Indianapolis into football city | ESPN
Irsay, the team’s owner since 1997, died Wednesday at 65. A day later, appearing on ESPN’s “NFL Live,” Manning recalled the evolution of Indianapolis under Irsay’s stewardship of the franchise.
“When I got there, Indiana basketball, [auto] racing, the Indy 500 — that was it,” Manning said. “I think football was the third sport. Maybe not. Golf might’ve been in there. And all of a sudden, because of the commitment Jim made to winning … he goes out and hires Bill Polian, who had rebuilt the Buffalo Bills, had started the Carolina Panthers as a new franchise, takes them to the NFC Championship [Game], then he drafts Edgerrin James, obviously re-signs Marvin Harrison, who’s already there. And next thing you know, the Colts all of a sudden, ‘Hey, the Colts are beating Miami, they’re beating Buffalo, they’re winning their division. And all of a sudden, hey, the Colts are for real.”
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Ranking the Chiefs’ best draft picks under GM Brett Veach
Fortunately for the Kansas City Chiefs, that hasn’t been a problem with general manager Brett Veach, who has been running the league’s most successful franchise since he took over in the summer of 2017. With eight cycles to his credit, Veach has assembled one of the league’s best draft records. His rookie picks have played a significant role in two separate roster builds that have resulted in league championships.
Here are the 10 best picks he’s made in Kansas City.
1. Cornerback Trent McDuffie
Pick 21, first round of 2022
You can argue that Trey Smith and Creed Humphrey were better values, but I’d still take McDuffie over them.
Whether in the slot or outside, McDuffie is one of the league’s best corners. He’s done everything at an All-Pro level, making him a true shutdown cornerback against any player in the league. The Denver Broncos’ Patrick Surtain II is the only other NFL player who can make that claim.
McDuffie’s rare skillset puts him at No. 1.
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Earlier this month, @TheGK3 visited the Special Olympics Missouri Training for Life Campus!
George met with the athletes and played flag football and led a workshop focused on leadership, goals and positive outcomes ❤️ pic.twitter.com/CDQakUhBkt
— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) May 25, 2025
