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Former Chiefs cornerback L’Jarius Sneed meets with team, sparking reunion rumors | Fox 4
Following the 2023 season, Sneed signed a massive four-year, $76.4 million deal with the Tennessee Titans. He started just 12 games for the Titans over the last two seasons, though, dealing with injuries for most of his tenure with the team.
Sneed was released back in March of 2026, making him an unrestricted free agent going into the 2026-27 season.
The news of Sneed meeting with his former team is worth noting
when considering the Chiefs’ need for bodies in the secondary, even after loading up on defensive talent in the 2026 NFL Draft.
Chiefs rookie Jaydn Ott has one key advantage in a crowded backfield battle | Arrowhead Addict
Ott signed with Kansas City after going unselected in the 2026 NFL Draft. As a rookie free agent, he faces long odds of making the team at all—and even more so after the Chiefs underwent a significant overhaul of the backfield—but it helps that he comes from the same stomping grounds as his new position coach in K.C.
The Chiefs hired Oklahoma’s DeMarco Murray to replace Todd Pinkston as running backs coach this spring, which works in Ott’s favor considering he spent the last year with the Sooners.
So what does Ott bring to the table? The 5-11, 198 lb. running back put up some very strong production with Cal back in 2023 but a rather ugly injury history kept him from repeating those numbers with Oklahoma and, consequently, he was passed over in the draft.
Matt Kenny has been promoted from Executive Vice President of Arrowhead Operations and Events to Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer. In addition, Brandon Hamilton has been elevated from Vice President of Stadium Operations and Facilities to Project Executive, Facilities Development.
“This is an exciting day for the Chiefs as we recognize what Matt, Brandon, and their teams have accomplished, while also looking ahead to the next phase of growth for our organization and this region through continued investment and development,” Chiefs President Mark Donovan said. “We’re confident in Matt’s leadership as we continue to evolve our special events, stadium, practice facility, and real estate initiatives, and Brandon’s experience in venue management and construction positions him well to lead the complex projects and partnerships that will shape our future. We could not be more excited to have Matt and Brandon stepping into these roles.”
Why Kansas City Chiefs practices have a different feel this summer | Kansas City Star
The Chiefs are 103 days ahead of their next football game. They are still installing new offensive plays, some of which they’ve literally never used before. And they are still a week shy of mandatory minicamp and seven shy of training camp.
But that’s also the point. There is a different feel to Chiefs practices, even as early as this summer – or the return of a feel the team hasn’t had on the field for the past couple of years.
Bieniemy is back. Chad O’Shea and DeMarco Murray have been added as wide receivers and running backs position coaches, respectively, and O’Shea in particular also brings a certain energy to practice.
What does that entail for an offense that hasn’t finished better than 15th in scoring in the last three years? That’s still to be determined.
What does it entail every day?
Well, this.
“I love it, man,” Mahomes said of Bieniemy’s practice return. “I truly do. I think you can feel it in meeting rooms.
“… It’s been exciting to me. The first meeting had me wanting to run through a brick wall. It had me ready to go.”
The energy is often infectious. The details are often the subject.
Over the past week-plus, players and coaches have attempted to walk a tightrope in not making this subject a commentary on last season – none have said a negative word about Matt Nagy, who’s now calling plays for the New York Giants.
Wyandotte County leaders at odds with Kansas lawmaker over Chiefs stadium decisions | The Beacon
When they voted in February to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in public subsidies for the Kansas City Chiefs, Wyandotte County officials wanted to make sure they would not be left out of oversight for the new Chiefs stadium.
Now, four months later, at least one state official is saying the county has not yet earned a spot at the table.
Rep. Sean Tarwater, a Republican from Stilwell in Johnson County, said that although Wyandotte County approved its $450 million subsidy for the Chiefs, a provision in that ordinance bars the county from having representation on the newly created Kansas Sports Facilities Authority, which will own the stadium.
That sports authority, created by HB2466 in April, will own the property for the new Chiefs stadium, oversee its administration and decide how to spend the $7 million per year that the team will pay in stadium rent to the state.
But several elected leaders at the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, disputed Tarwater’s claim and believe the county’s contribution makes it legally entitled to a seat on the sports authority board.
“We’re in a good place with the state,” said Christal Watson, the mayor and CEO of the Unified Government. “And when I say state, we’ve been working directly with the governor, lieutenant governor’s office. … I understand (Tarwater’s) concerns, but I’m sure they understand ours.”
Around the NFL
Sources: Packers, WR Christian Watson reach $110.5M extension | ESPN
The new money average of $27.6 million is almost exactly what the franchise tag is on Cowboys receiver George Pickens ($27.3 million). However, Watson still had $5.75 million on his existing contract.
Watson, a second-round pick in 2022, had a strong return from the injury with 35 catches for 611 yards and six touchdowns in the final 10 games of last season. From Weeks 8 to 18, Watson led the NFL with a 17.5-yard average per catch. Of his 35 catches last season, 17 went for 16 or more yards, a percentage that ranked third among all players with at least 30 catches last season.
In four seasons with the Packers, Watson has caught 133 passes for 2,264 yards and 20 touchdowns.
Odell Beckham Jr. instead describes his 2025 season away from football as “unsettling in my soul.”
“My whole life, for better or worse, is pushing it to the limit …” the again-New York Giants receiver said Wednesday. “I’ve never surrendered or quit or felt like I’ve given up on myself or anything. It just wasn’t sitting with me well.”
So Beckham ignored the reality that he’d missed all of the 2025 NFL season, in part as he served a six-game suspension for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances. Beckham set aside the lingering knee rehabilitation that limited him to just nine catches with the Miami Dolphins in 2024, and he committed to working through the restrictions that trailed his left ACL tears from October 2020 and February 2022.
Yes, Beckham is now 33 years old, hardly spry in pro football years. And yes, he once left the Giants with a bang after a spectacular rookie year and four 1,000-yard seasons in five tries.
Rams, Myles Garrett execute a new contract | NBC Sports
Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the Rams and Garrett have worked out a new deal. It’s a five-year deal covering 2026 through 2030, with available options through 2038. (The options are surely present for cap purposes.)
We’re in the process of tracking down the details. The key question is whether and to what extent the new-money APY will change. His latest deal set a new standard for non-quarterbacks, at $40 million per year. Since then, the bar has moved to $50 million.
The signing bonus is $35.7 million. The salary will be at least $1.3 million, pushing his minimum compensation package for 2026 to $37 million.
That exceeds the $31.5 million total compensation he was due to make under his prior deal by at least $5.5 million. (Of that amount, $1 million was in the form of per-game roster bonuses. The new deal possibly has per-game roster bonuses for 2026, too.)
In case you missed it on Arrowhead Pride
Steve Spagnuolo overloads Chiefs’ new defenders in offseason workouts
Speaking about Delane first, Spagnuolo said that it was pretty clear to the Chiefs’ staff and scouts that the sixth-overall pick in the draft was the best cornerback in the draft.
“He jumped out on tape,” said Spagnuolo brightly. “I think he could have come out after his last year at [Virginia Tech]… the information we gathered was that he wanted to be challenged a little bit more, so you go to LSU. I think that speaks volumes about a guy.”
The idea that Delane was not satisfied with ACC competition, choosing to transfer to college football’s top conference, was reinforced by Delane himself in a video the team posted on its YouTube page two weeks ago.
Delane purposely chose the tougher path to the NFL. He wanted to test and prove he was the best, and now he has landed with a defensive coordinator whose philosophy in developing young players is to make them uncomfortable and see how they handle it.
“We did feed overload in these three phases that we are in,” Spagnuolo shared. “A lot of guys are swimming that are new. At some point, we’ll cut back… the thought process is at some point we’ll want to use the volume, [and] pluck from it, at least they will have been exposed to it a little bit. And if you’re going to make mistakes, I’d rather make them now.”
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