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• Jaden Hicks should have increased role in 2025

Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images In Year 2 without Justin Reid, Hicks should see much more playing time. After flashing potential during his rookie campaign and showing poise throughout voluntary organized team activities (OTAs), safety Jaden Hicks is embracing a more vocal, visible role in the Kansas City Chiefs’ secondary. And he’s doing it with the sting of last season’s Super Bowl l...2025
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• Chiefs OTA observations from Thursday’s Day 9

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Everything that went down during Kansas City’s ninth organized team activity session of 2025. On Thursday, the Kansas City Chiefs conducted their ninth organized team activity (OTA) session of the 2025 season at their practice facility on the grounds of the Truman Sports Complex in Kansas City. This was the third (and final) voluntary...2025
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• Arrowheadlines: Arrowheadlines: Missouri plan to keep Chiefs in state passes

Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images Chiefs headlines for Thursday, June 12 The latest Missouri’s plan to keep Chiefs & Royals stadiums passes legislature. What now? | The Kansas City Star Missouri’s plan, which passed the House on a vote of 90 to 58 would allow Missouri to pay for up to 50% of new or improved stadiums for the Chiefs and Royals using tax revenue generated by the teams toward ...2025
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• PFF names Chiefs’ safety to its ‘All-Breakout Team’

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Jaden Hicks is entering his second NFL season and stands to see an uptick in playing time. On Tuesday, football analytics website Pro Football Focus continued its offseason series with the “2025 All-Breakout Team.” The Kansas City Chiefs had one player crack the list: second-year safety Jaden Hicks. SAFETY: JADEN HICKS, KANSAS CITY CHIEFS Most attention sur...2025
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• Arrowheadlines: Missouri Senate greenlights plan to keep Chiefs, Royals in state

Photo by Kirby Lee/Getty Images Chiefs headlines for Saturday, June 7 The latest Missouri Senate approves plan to keep Chiefs, Royals in Kansas City | ESPN Missouri senators on Thursday approved a plan to provide more than $100 million in aid for tornado-ravaged St. Louis and authorized hundreds of millions of dollars worth of incentives to try to persuade the Kansas City Chiefs and Roya...2025
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• Chiefs Market Movers: OTA edition

Photo by Bruce Yeung/Getty Images Which Kansas City players are trending up (or down) during organized team activities? The Kansas City Chiefs’ OTAs march on — and the Royals have two young superstars. It’s a fun time to be a Kansas City sports fan — even if we’re a little starved for Chiefs news and the stadiums’ futures are still in doubt. As the team heads into its third week of OTAs, ...2025
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• A year later: Looking back at the Chiefs’ 2024 Draft

Photo by John Smolek/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A year since they joined the team, let’s see how the Chiefs 2024 draft picks have panned out thus far. Part of the reason the Kansas City Chiefs have been so successful in recent years is their ability to hit on a solid number of draft picks, relying on free agency only to selectively supplement a roster built mainly through the draft. ...2025
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• How the Chiefs will use their newly-drafted players this season

Photo by Perry Knotts/Getty Images Kansas City has acquired seven new players through the draft. How can we expect them to be used as rookies? Now that the Kansas City Chiefs have taken seven players in the 2025 NFL Draft, let’s project the role each one will play during their rookie season. Ohio State tackle Josh Simmons Round 1, pick 32 Predicting Simmons’ role is tricky, because we don...2025
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• Looking at the Chiefs’ roster depth ahead of the NFL draft

Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Kansas City may well already have the Week One starting lineup in house, but some long-term needs will drive this weekend’s decisions. The 2025 NFL Draft will kick off from Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Thursday, April 24, with Round 1. The second and third rounds will take place on Friday night, with the fourth through seventh rounds set for Saturday. The Kansas C...2025
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• NFL Draft results for reigning Super Bowl champions aren’t pretty

Photo by John Smolek/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Recent first-round results for defending Super Bowl champions have mostly not panned out. Much of the focus of every NFL Draft is understandably concentrated on the teams at the top of the order. Those are the teams in dire need of franchise-changing talent (usually a quarterback) in order to become contenders, and they usually have the...2025
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• Expect to see more of Trent McDuffie at Nickel in 2025

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images On Monday, the face of Kansas City’s secondary discussed his role, offseason arrivals and departures in the defensive backs room, and the early stages of his contract negotiations. Among the Kansas City Chiefs’ first moves of the offseason was signing former Los Angeles Chargers cornerback Kristian Fulton to a two-year contract. The move was widely inter...2025
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• What would a redshirt draft for the Chiefs look like?

Photo by Andy Altenburger/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images What if Kansas City used its draft picks on players who needed a year of development? Leading into the NFL Draft, we’ll develop different mock draft scenarios and what the Kansas City Chiefs should do in response to those situations. These aren’t predictions on what we think will happen, but what would be the right course of action...2025
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"This game will also be big for secondary players like Justin Reid, Chamarri Conner, Jaden Hicks and Trent McDuffie, as this group tends to be the Chiefs’ secondary players who play snaps in the tackle box or the flat."

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"On third down, the downfield throw was intercepted by rookie safety Jaden Hicks."

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"on ESPN Jaden Hicks, S, Washington State: The redshirt sophomore has backed up his Freshman All-American season with another strong campaign for the Cougars as both a free safety as well as playing in the slot."

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• The Chiefs’ hidden gems: 3 secret superstars on the 2025 roster

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images Identifying three secret superstars who can help Kansas City bounce back from its Super Bowl embarrassment. The first time a defense bollixed up the Kansas City Chiefs in a championship game, it was in Super Bowl LV after the 2020 season, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers set head coach Andy Reid’s high-flying offense on its ear in a 31-9 cakewalk. After th...2025
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• Chiefs land a player on Pro Football Focus ‘25 under 25’ list

Photo by Jason Hanna/Getty Images For the second straight season, Kansas City is represented by cornerback Trent McDuffie. For the second straight offseason, the Kansas City Chiefs have landed a single player on the Pro Football Focus “25 under 25” list: cornerback Trent McDuffie. McDuffie — already a two-time All-Pro — will be just 24 when the season starts. It is worth noting he turns 2...2025
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• Monday Musings: Which safeties will lead the Chiefs’ secondary in 2025?

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Let’s discuss who will be Kansas City’s last line of defense in the coming season. In the offseason, the Kansas City Chiefs watched starting safety Justin Reid move on to the New Orleans Saints. We expect fourth-year player Bryan Cook to start again in 2025, but who will play alongside him? Jaden Hicks was impressive in his rookie season. Over the...2025
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• Picking a 2025 ‘breakout’ candidate for the Chiefs

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images PFF has made its pick, and I have made mine. Who’s your breakout pick? On Thursday, Pro Football Focus published its “Post-NFL draft breakout candidates for all 32 teams,” which included a selection for the Kansas City Chiefs: PFF’s choice: safety Jaden Hicks With Justin Reid off to New Orleans, there is a key role in Steve Spagnuolo’s defense potential...2025
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• On the draft board: Kansas State CB Jacob Parrish has traits the Chiefs like

Photo by Peter G. Aiken/Getty Images Could one of the players who participated in the team’s recent local pro day make it to Kansas City? While many of those who attended the Kansas City Chiefs’ local pro day on Monday are longshots to make it to the NFL, several of the participating players will probably be selected during this month’s draft. Among them, Kansas State cornerback Jacob Parr...2025
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• The Linc - “Eagles fans outnumber Chiefs fans in New Orleans. And it’s not even close.”

Photo by David Buono/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Philadelphia Eagles news and links for 2/8/25. Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles links ... As of Friday night, Eagles fans dramatically outnumber Chiefs fans in New Orleans - PFTIt’s a very unscientific, eyeballs-based assessment. As of Friday night, it’s not even close. Based on what I saw at dinner on Friday night and during the on...2025
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• Chiefs’ defense steps up in big spots against the Bills

Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Steve Spagnuolo’s unit made critical stops in the game's most significant moments. The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Buffalo Bills 32-29 to win the AFC Championship game on Sunday night. The game was full of drama from start to finish, and many plays likely led to the game's slim three-point margin. The Chiefs' defense didn’t play perfectly, but they stood t...2025
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• Chiefs’ sneaky 4th-down blitz to beat the Bills was pure Steve Spagnuolo brilliance

Steve Spagnuolo saved his best blitz for last with the Bills facing 4th down with the game on the line. Imagine for a moment that you have one play to stop Josh Allen, with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line. What would you call? That was the dilemma facing Kansas City Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo late in Sunday’s thrilling AFC Championship Game. Spagnuolo brought a blitz th...2025
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• The Linc - “Eagles fans outnumber Chiefs fans in New Orleans. And it’s not even close.”
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• The challenge of Saquon Barkley and the Eagles offensive line

Bill Streicher-Imagn Images The best running back in the NFL runs behind the best offensive line. What can the Chiefs expect on Sunday? On Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs will take on the Philadelphia Eagles in Super LIX from New Orleans. The game will feature a rematch of Super Bowl LVII when the Chiefs narrowly defeated the Eagles 38-35 in one of the best games in recent memory. While t...2025
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• Final score: Chiefs outlast Texans 27-19 to go unbeaten at Arrowhead

Photo by David Eulitt/Getty Images Kansas City advanced to 14-1 by finishing its home schedule unscathed. The Kansas City Chiefs are one step closer to the AFC’s No. 1 postseason seed with Saturday’s 27-19 win over the Houston Texans on GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. Kansas City’s magic number for the top seed now stands at 1: a Chiefs win or a Buffalo Bills loss will clinch a first-rou...2024
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• Chiefs-Raiders snap counts: Charles Omenihu casts a big shadow in return

Photo by William Purnell/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images How did Kansas City use its players in Friday’s game against Las Vegas? The Kansas City Chiefs handed the Las Vegas Raiders a narrow 19-17 defeat in Week 13’s “Black Friday” matchup on GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. Let’s take a look at how the Chiefs used their players. Starters (offensive): WR Xavier Worthy, TE Travis Kelce, TE...2024
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• Final score: Chiefs ride six turnovers to 21-7 win over Browns

Photo by Nick Cammett/Getty Images Kansas City’s defense came alive in Cleveland, leading the way to a two-score win. Seeking the first of at least two victories they will need to claim the AFC’s No. 1 postseason seed, the Kansas City Chiefs collected a 21-7 road victory over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday afternoon, extending their record to 13-1 with their sixth straight win over Clevela...2024
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• Seahawks regain first place in NFC West after Brock Purdy’s pick parade vs. Chiefs

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The 49ers are back below .500 after getting owned by the Chiefs yet again. How quickly things can change in the NFL. When the San Francisco 49ers beat the Seattle Seahawks in Week 6, they assumed top spot in the NFC West on a head-to-head tiebreaker. The 49ers righted their ship, while the Seahawks were taking on water. Fast forward to Week 7, and...2024
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• Arrowheadlines: Skyy Moore is one of the winners of cutdown day

Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports Chiefs headlines for Wednesday, August 28 The latest NFL roster cuts 2024: Winners, losers from deadline moves | USA Today Skyy Moore A second-round pick of the Kansas City Chiefs once upon a time – aka 2022 – Moore has often garnered positive buzz but never really delivered the goods, catching just 43 passes in two seasons. Yet his roster bubble hasn’t burst...2024
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• Giants mock draft: Giants get QB J.J. McCarthy, and add a 2025 first-round pick

J.J. McCarthy | Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images Giants get their quarterback, and a second first-round pick next year The 2024 NFL Draft is getting close now, only a bit more than three weeks away. That means no more running scenarios just to present options in these weekly New York Giants mock drafts. We’re down to brass tacks, with ways I think the real draft could turn out and, as m...2024
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• Giants mock draft: ESPN simulator throws a QB curveball

Drake Maye | Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports A quarterback falls into Giants’ lap at No. 6 ESPN has — finally — come out with its 2024 draft simulator. So, to perhaps change things up a bit in our weekly New York Giants mock drafts let’s use it. Round 1 (No. 6) — Drake Maye, QB, North Carolina OK, so the ESPN simulator is annoying me. I re-started this mock draft a half-dozen times. Each tim...2024
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• Minnesota Vikings News and Links, 21,22 October 2023

Photo by John Byrum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images “My level of sarcasm has gotten to a point where I don’t even know if I am kidding anymore.” We shall remain hopeful for this week’s game! Since yore last open thread ... 2023 NFL Week 7: San Francisco 49ers at Minnesota Vikings Too little balance hurting Vikings rush game 5 questions with Daily Norseman: Do the Vikings have any advantag...2023
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• PFF projects Chiefs’ starting rosters for 2025

Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images How does the football analytics site see Kansas City’s starting lineup playing out this season? On Monday, the football analytics site Pro Football Focus published projected 2025 starting rosters for all 32 NFL teams — including the Kansas City Chiefs. Written by Dalton Wasserman and Max Chadwick, the article lists 12 players for each unit on every team. ...2025
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• Adding up the Chiefs’ key moves as the 2025 league year begins

Photo by David Eulitt/Getty Images With the new league underway, let’s recount what Brett Veach and his team have done to this point. At 3 p.m. Arrowhead Time on Wednesday, the NFL’s 2025 league year began. This means that all of the Kansas City Chiefs’ work within the “legal tampering period” over the last two and half days can now become official. As this critical juncture comes to pass,...2025
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• How the Chiefs could spy the Bills’ Josh Allen in the AFC Championship

Photo by Ryan Kang/Getty Images In the regular-season matchup, Kansas City didn’t spy Buffalo’s versatile quarterback. When the Kansas City Chiefs face the Buffalo Bills in Sunday night’s AFC Championship, they will be trying to stop one of the NFL’s most dangerous quarterbacks: Buffalo’s Josh Allen. In the team's Week 11 matchup, Allen threw for 262 yards and a touchdown — while running f...2025
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• Chiefs’ initial 53-man roster for 2024 revealed after cuts

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Instant analysis of Kansas City’s initial 53-man roster. The Kansas City Chiefs have made their cuts to get the team’s active roster down to 53 players before the NFL’s deadline. It is important to remember that this may not be the exact Chiefs roster that begins the season against the Baltimore Ravens a week from Thursday. Some players will be removed duri...2024
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