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There has been no shortage of coverage on the Kansas City Chiefs’ disappointing 6-11 season. Much of the analysis falls into the polarizing extremes: either head coach Andy Reid needs to be replaced, or Reid’s track record should not be doubted.
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For the 2026 season, Reid will be the NFL’s longest-tenured head coach. It is probably not a hot take that the coming season will set the stage for the remainder of the 68-year-old’s career.
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QB Patrick Mahomes was injured late in the season but had gone 6-8 prior to his torn ACL. So even before Mahomes went down, this offense was underperforming under Reid for what feels like the first time in a while.
The Chiefs would finish in the bottom half in points per game (21.3) and yards per game (320.6). Which begs the question, has Reid become bad for the passing-game pieces on Kansas City?
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Kansas City’s offensive coordinator position has been devalued for years, overshadowed by the prowess of Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid. Perhaps it shouldn’t have been. During Eric Bieniemy’s five years as the team’s OC from 2018 through 2022, the Chiefs never finished worse than sixth in the league in points or yards, twice tallied the most points and three times amassed the most yards. In the last three years without Bieniemy, the Chiefs have ranked, at average, 17th in scoring and 15th in yardage.
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Leo Chenal, LB — Signed with Commanders
This one still hurts. With a third-round pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, the Chiefs found an absolute gem in Wisconsin’s Leo Chenal. He made an immediate impact early in his career, and a strong case could have been made for him to have been named MVP in Super Bowl 58 for his efforts in that game.
Yet, when push came to shove, Chenal was not retained by the team that drafted him.
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Cyrus Allen, WR, Kansas City Chiefs
Allen averaged an impressive 16.2 yards per catch during his collegiate career, which also included stops at Louisiana Tech and Texas A&M, and he recorded 13 touchdown receptions this past season. He clocked a 4.47-second 40-yard dash at Cincinnati’s prom day, and he impressed during Kansas City’s early offseason.
“He’s an electric route-runner,” fellow wideout Xavier Worthy told reporters last month.
As Rashee Rice continues to recover from offseason knee surgery, Allen should get plenty of opportunities to generate noise in training camp.
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A major free agent signing ahead of the 2025 season, Moore went on to appear in 15 games (with six starts) in his first season with Kansas City.
He began the year as the Chiefs’ primary swing tackle, and when starting left tackle Josh Simmons was unavailable from Week 6 through Week 9, Moore took over protecting quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ blindside. Moore returned to the swing tackle role once Simmons resumed his duties on the left, but injuries at right tackle later thrust Moore into action for three additional starts as the year continued.
Moore’s versatility to play both tackle spots obviously proved valuable throughout the season, and now entering the 2026 campaign, he’ll have a chance to compete for the starting right tackle role with former incumbent Jawaan Taylor no longer in town.
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The situation between Aiyuk and the 49ers has been boiling over for months and it started to get ugly last December when San Francisco placed him on the reserve/left squad list. When you’re on that list, a team doesn’t have to pay you and you don’t count against the active roster. If a player is placed on that list, they have to apply for reinstatement with the NFL if they want to get back on the team’s active roster and that’s where things get interesting here, because Aiyuk made it clear this week that he’s NOT going to apply.
“I will not be reinstating with [the 49ers] nor ever doing any kind of business with them,” Aiyuk wrote, via 49ers Web Zone.
He relived the sequence through his own eyes, how the football left Josh Allen’s hand and soared through the night air, how it felt in his hands, how the defender engulfed him, how Empower Field at Mile High fell into silent suspense and then erupted.
“For a week straight, I was watching it over and over,” Cooks told The Athletic. “But I knew, as a father, that I had to put it away. If I’d have kept watching, it would have put me in some type of mood that my wife and my kids didn’t deserve.”
Study: NFL players are 4 times more likely to die from neurodegenerative disease | ESPN
The researchers studied 19,824 athletes who played in the NFL between 1960 and 2019, including the 1,994 who have died, calling it the “biggest retrospective cohort study to date.” They found the rate of neurodegenerative death was “more significant” for younger players: Those who died before age 60 had 12-fold higher rates of neurodegenerative death than the general population, according to the study.
The results are “tragic but not surprising,” co-senior author Dr. Daniel Daneshvar, chair of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School, said in an interview Thursday with ESPN.
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ESPN survey ranks Chris Jones as NFL’s fourth-best defensive tackle
Fowler indicates that at least one voter considered Jones the top defensive tackle in the NFL, but at least one other believes Jones is ranked as low as 10.
It’s a slight drop-off for Jones, who ranked second in the same survey last year, but it’s a disrespectful note for Jones to put in his back pocket as the season approaches. One NFL coordinator told Fowler that “you don’t feel him as much as you used to,” regarding Jones’ impact on game plans.
