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“He’s around here all the time, spends a ton of time here,” Kansas City head coach Andy Reid said Friday. “Seven hours a day. He’s in there cranking away, making progress every day. It’s great to see.”
Mahomes suffered a season-ended torn ACL and LCL in a Week 15 home loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. The injury required immediate surgery and the rehab process could take up to nine months. If so, Mahomes could miss
the start of the 2026 season.
Reid said Mahomes is working with Julie Frymyer, the team’s assistant trainer and physical therapist. She was key figure in Mahomes’ management of a high-ankle sprain through the 2023 playoffs — a run that ended in a Chiefs Super Bowl victory.
“She makes sure he stays on task, and challenges him,” Reid said. “And he keeps showing up. That’s about half the battle on these things.
“It’s not going to be a pleasant thing. Every day you’ve got to fight through it and attack the challenge of the workout. He’s doing a great job with that.”
Chiefs’ Andy Reid: ‘Nothing happening’ with Tyreek Hill | Reuters
“I don’t even know if Tyreek is healthy right now to do anything,” Reid said. “So, I’m sure he’s working hard on that part of it, trying to get that all straightened out.
“But yeah, listen, we talk about everything. So there’s nothing happening there, but we know what you know – that he’s out there and cranking away, trying to get himself back to where he can play, period.”
Hill said in a recent stream on Twitch that his recovery is “going good,” while adding that he faces one more surgery.
But it’s not just that. A civil suit filed against Rice by the mother of his two children for abuse this week could add to the uncertainty of the position group.
Kansas City head coach Andy Reid said Rice’s situation doesn’t change the team’s approach to shaping the position for the 2026 NFL season.
“I would tell you, no, not right now on this,” Reid said.
Rice led the Chiefs wide receivers in 2025 with 53 receptions despite playing in just eight games. He was suspended for the first six under the NFL’s conduct policy for his role in a 2023 car crash.
Brown was second with 49 catches in 2025, followed by Worthy with 42.
Will the Chiefs re-sign any of their free agents, and does a wide receiver become a possibility with the team’s first draft pick? General manager Brett Veach will continue to sort through the options next week at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis.
“Brett’s already got his guys digging in on things,” Reid said. “There’s a million different options of things you have to look at. A lot of moving parts going on.”
Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce sued for trademark infringement | ESPN
Mahomes and Kelce, along with business partner Noble 33, opened their steakhouse last year, combining Mahomes’ and Kelce’s jersey numbers to give it the name. The sneaker company 1587 Sneakers alleges in the suit that the restaurant name infringes its usage of the identical number combination.
The legal question revolves around the unregistered rights that the sneaker company claimed before it filed its trademark applications last year, said trademark attorney Josh Gerben of Gerben IP, who doesn’t represent either party.
The suit alleges that the 1587 Sneakers brand started selling its shoes April 13, 2023, and thus has first use of the number and markings. The shoe company did not apply for the “1587” trademark until last October, and the application is still under review by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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Cowboys waive LB Logan Wilson, save $6.5M in salary cap space | ESPN
In seven games, Williams was credited with 28 tackles and a forced fumble, but he started just once. Despite the struggles at the position and the defense in general, the Cowboys kept Kenneth Murray Jr. as the starter over Wilson. In the Christmas Day win against the Washington Commanders, he did not play a snap, which was called a coaches’ error in the days after the game.
The Cowboys gave up a 2026 seventh-round pick to the Cincinnati Bengals for Wilson. In Cincinnati, where he was voted a captain in 2025, Wilson was benched in favor of rookie Barrett Carter and led to the trade.
In parts of five seasons with the Bengals, Wilson started 65 games, intercepted 11 passes and was a key figure in their run to Super Bowl LVI where they lost to the Los Angeles Rams.
Rams promoting Nate Scheelhaase to offensive coordinator | NFL.com
A rising star in league circles, the 35-year-old Scheelhaase is being promoted from L.A.’s pass game coordinator to its new OC, NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero reported Friday.
Scheelhaase succeeds Mike LaFleur, who was hired as the Arizona Cardinals head coach after three years as L.A.’s offensive coordinator under head coach Sean McVay. LaFleur and Scheelhaase aided in the Rams’ run to the NFC Championship Game, and the latter will be looked upon to maintain an offense that was No. 1 overall in the NFL.
Should Scheelhaase find success in the role, just how long he sticks around could come into question. He garnered interviews for the Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers and Las Vegas Raiders HC vacancies this hiring cycle.
The Florida Senate on Thursday unanimously passed CS/CS/SB 178, known as the “Teddy Bridgewater Act,” which authorizes K-12 head coaches to use $15,000 in personal funds per year to support student-athlete welfare.
The bill was immediately certified by a 38-0 vote.
Officially, the act requires, “the Florida High School Athletic Association to adopt bylaws authorizing a head coach to support the welfare of a student by using personal funds to provide certain effects to the student; requiring the head coach to report such use of personal funds to the association; providing that such use of personal funds is presumed not to be an impermissible benefit, etc.”
Bridgewater, once a star quarterback at Northwestern, returned to his alma mater and promptly coached the Bulls to a Class 3A state title in 2024. However, after admitting to covering food and transportation costs for his players while seeking financial aid from supporters, he was suspended from coaching the team in 2025 for providing prohibited benefits.
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NFL free agency: 3 running backs the Chiefs should target
2. Kenneth Gainwell
If the Chiefs decided to go a more affordable route, or one with a significant draft selection, Kenneth Gainwell could be a player Kansas City’s coaching staff can utilize in a variety of ways, no matter how the rest of the backfield shakes out.
A career backup, Gainwell found his footing with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2025, where he became a solid receiving option out of the backfield as well as in the slot.
Gainwell brings shiftiness and good speed to the table, but he would also provide a veteran presence in the running back room. He would be a Swiss Army knife the Chiefs’ backfield has lacked since another veteran back, Jerick McKinnon.
The perfect complement to a “power” back, Gainwell is estimated to make only around $3 million per season, per Spotrac. He’s a good bargain for any team looking to add explosive capability to the backfield.
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