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Top RB prospect Jeremiyah Love hints he wants to play for Chiefs | FOX4
“I want to play with the best quarterback, so you know who that is. I ain’t gone say his name,” Love said in a video on social media. “All of them are great, you got guys that are different that can do some crazy stuff, and I want to play with the best.”
While Love left out naming who the “best” was, it seems he was clearly alluding to taking the field with Patrick Mahomes, and rightfully so. Love is the explosive running back
the Chiefs have been missing and would complement Mahomes greatly.
Not only that, but he has connections to the area and the team. Love hails from the State of Missouri, specifically St. Louis, where he attended Christian Brothers College for High School and played multiple teams from the Kansas City metro.
NFL rookie report cards: Grading and ranking every team’s 2025 draft class | NFL.com
Rank 20: Kansas City Chiefs
Grade: B-Draft picks:
Round 1 (No. 32): OT Josh Simmons | 8 games/starts
Round 2 (No. 63): DT Omarr Norman-Lott | 5 games/1 start
Round 3 (No. 66): Edge Ashton Gillotte | 17 games/2 starts
Round 3 (No. 85): CB Nohl Williams | 17 games/5 starts
Round 4 (No. 133): WR Jalen Royals | 7 games/2 starts
Round 5 (No. 156): LB Jeffrey Bassa | 17 games/0 starts
Round 7 (No. 228): RB Brashard Smith | 17 games/1 startNotable free-agent signings:
OT Esa Pole | 5 games/4 startsAnalysis:
Neither Josh Simmons nor Nohl Williams eclipsed 50 percent of the Chiefs’ offensive/defensive snaps in Year 1, but both impressed in abbreviated fashion. Having entered the draft with a recently torn patellar tendon, Simmons fell to the end of Round 1, where the Chiefs happily scooped up a potential steal. A Day 1 starter on Patrick Mahomes’ blind side, Simmons looked the part, yielding just one sack in the first five games of the season, per PFF. But then he missed four games while tending to a family matter. After returning to the starting lineup in mid-November, Simmons continued to thrive … until a wrist injury ended his season on Thanksgiving. I remain high on Simmons’ raw talent, but he’s not gaining fans in the “availability is the best ability” crowd. Williams, on the other hand, was active for all 17 games, though his defensive snap totals varied during the first three months of the season. Then he received steady burn at outside corner in the last five games of the season — starting the final four — and performed well, recording four pass breakups, four tackles for loss and a sack in that closing stretch. With a number of Chiefs defensive backs hitting free agency this offseason, Williams could become a full-time starter in 2026.
Chiefs fans thought the Jawaan Taylor decision was obvious until now | Arrowhead Addict
I began to wonder about this earlier in the weekend: why have the Chiefs not made a move on Taylor yet? Twenty million dollars in cap savings in a year in which the team needs to make several moves in free agency to shore up the roster in an attempt to get back to the playoffs in 2026 seems almost non-negotiable from a financial standpoint. Well, Veach complicated things a little further with his comments at the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine:
“With guys like Jawaan and Drue Tranquill, someone asked me about earlier, these guys started for us, and they played a lot of football for us. And again, our cap situation, I don’t know if we’re $6 or $7 (million) over, but I think we have $60 million in convertible contracts, too.”
Wait, excuse me? Are we living in a world where Jawaan Taylor could be a Chief not just for another year, but where it would appear there is potential for multiple years of the same player who has wrecked numerous crunch-time drives over the course of the last three seasons?
He beamed as he referred to “a lot of moving parts” … and even as he acknowledged the organization’s salary cap issues.
It was such a striking mood under the circumstances that I felt compelled to ask to what degree Reid feels invigorated by what he and the Chiefs are facing — which seems to me to be the most to sort out or fix since Reid fired defensive coordinator Bob Sutton and replaced him with Steve Spagnuolo after the 2018 season.
Perhaps not surprisingly for a man who nearly every week speaks of “looking forward to the challenge” of the Chiefs’ next foe, Reid began his answer thusly:
“Listen, I love challenges,” he said. “Every year is a challenge. This one presents a little different because of what we’re coming off of after this last year.”
As he started to smile again, he added, “Nobody wants that. Fans don’t want that, (the) organization doesn’t want that. Coaches, players, they don’t want that. So you dig in and you work to fix the problems that you think were in place and take care of business there. So that’s what we’re doing.”
During this Combine, you could make the case that a few guys got close to Worthy. Now, in all honesty, .5 tenths of a second is not as close as you would think when it comes to a 40-yard dash. However, the way some of these guys were moving, it looked like maybe a few of them could get even closer to that record had they had a few more tries.
Former Oklahoma Sooners and Mississippi State Bulldogs WR Brenen Thompson finished with a 4.26. Ohio State Buckeyes CB Lorenzo Styles finished with a 4.27, and LSU Tigers WR Zavion Thomas finished with a 4.28. All of these guys were blazing fast on Saturday. But there’s only one fastest man in the NFL, and the Chiefs still have him.
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Sources: Vikings to trade or cut Aaron Jones, Javon Hargrave | ESPN
The moves will save the team $18.65 million in cap space. Entering the weekend, the Vikings were roughly $43 million over the NFL’s $301.2 million cap, the result of two consecutive years of heavy free agent spending. Other candidates for contract termination include defensive tackle Jonathan Allen and center Ryan Kelly. It’s also possible that the Vikings could lower the cap number of other players — including receiver Justin Jefferson, right tackle Brian O’Neill and tight end T.J. Hockenson — via either contract extensions or restructures.
Jones, 31, spent two seasons with the Vikings after playing his first seven years in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers. He produced career highs in touches (306), carries (255), offensive snaps (700) and rushing yards (1,138) during the 2024 season, but injuries caught up to him in 2025. He played in 12 games and managed only 548 rushing yards and 747 total yards from scrimmage, both the lowest in his career since he was a rookie in 2017.
Ohio State WR Carnell Tate’s 40-yard dash at NFL combine under dispute | The Athletic
Carnell Tate’s 40-yard dash time at the NFL Combine is under dispute after the Ohio State wide receiver was officially clocked at 4.53 seconds inside Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Saturday. At least two teams had the top prospect with a faster time, team sources confirmed to The Athletic.
Tate’s official time ranked 27th among the group of 34 participating prospects, which notably didn’t include four of the top five wide receivers in The Athletic’s pre-combine rankings: Jordyn Tyson, Makai Lemon, KC Concepcion and Denzel Boston.
Teams recorded Tate with a time in the 4.45-second range, sources said. The discrepancy could be attributed to the equipment used for laser timing, as some teams logged times differing from the official mark for other prospects as well, according to sources.
Taylen Green breaks QB vertical leap record at Combine, runs 40 in 4.36 seconds | Pro Football Talk
Green broke Anthony Richardson’s vertical leap record by hitting 43.5 inches in Saturday’s testing. Green also ran the fastest 40 among this year’s quarterbacks at 4.36 seconds — Michael Vick has the all-time record at 4.33 seconds — and he had the longest broad jump of the group.
Green spent three years at Boise State before joining the Razorbacks in 2024. He completed just over 60 percent of his passes in two seasons at Arkansas for 5,868 yards, 34 touchdowns and 20 interceptions. He also ran 295 times for 1,379 yards and 16 touchdowns.
Any team drafting Green will be taking on a project, but Saturday’s work showed the kind of athleticism that might make that a worthwhile challenge for the right club.
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NFL sets the 2026 salary cap. Here’s where the Chiefs stand
On Friday, the league officially set the 2026 limit at $302.1 million per club. This marked a $22 million increase from 2025’s number.
The official figure is the minimum that the range teams were told in January to expect. The Chiefs — who were estimated to be almost $60 million over the limit at the start of the offseason — likely hoped for the upper limit of $305.7 million.
With slightly less breathing room than hoped, Spotrac currently estimates Kansas City to be about $8.6 million over the cap. All teams must be under the salary cap when the new league year begins on March 11 at 3 p.m. Arrowhead time.
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