The Breer Report: Kansas City Chiefs Training Camp Takeaways (2023)

Senior NFL Reporter Albert Breer shares his five biggest takeaways from Chiefs training camp in St. Joseph, MO.

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00:00 All right, we're here from St. Joseph, Missouri, campus of Missouri Western,

00:04 Science Chiefs training camp. I'm under a roof, a golf cart roof, because it's over

00:08 100 degrees here. Gonna be 100 degrees the next few days. Pads go on on Friday.

00:12 Nice early test for the defending world champs. We have five takeaways from their

00:16 training camp. Takeaway number one, their tackle position might be the best spot

00:19 it's been in. In Patrick Mahomes' seven years as a pro, and that's saying

00:22 something. They've had good players come through here. Eric Fisher, Mitchell

00:25 Schwartz, Orlando Brown, but they really feel like left tackle Donovan Smith and

00:29 right tackle Jawan Taylor have a chance to raise the bar at the position. Smith

00:33 looks re-energized coming out of his run in the Tampa Bay Buccaneer, and Taylor

00:37 looks like he's gonna be worth the 20 million dollars they spent on him back

00:40 in March. Takeaway number two, the corner position is in a real sweet spot. They

00:44 have four ascending young players there, all on rookie contracts. Even the injury

00:49 situation sort of played out in their favor.

00:51 LeJarrius Sneed and Trent McDuffie, two top shelf guys, battled injuries in the

00:56 spring. They're being managed early in camp. That's created opportunity for

00:59 Jalen Watson and Joshua Williams to really get a lot of quality reps. They

01:05 feel like they're not only gonna be good at that position, but pretty deep as

01:08 well. Takeaway number three, if there's a spot that needs to be sorted out, it's

01:11 definitely a receiver, particularly after Kadarius Toney went down a couple of

01:15 days ago, and that means young guys stepping up, two in particular. Their

01:19 second-round picks from the last two years, Sky Moore and Rashi Rice. Moore has

01:23 really taken a step forward early in camp. Looks like he has a chance to play

01:27 an Albert Wilson type of role in Andy Reid's offense. Meanwhile, Rice has

01:31 bounced back. He was up and down in the spring, but he showed up to camp in much

01:34 better shape. They're optimistic he's gonna be a day one contributor for them.

01:37 Takeaway number four, if there is a dark horse early in camp, it's another

01:41 running back. Last year was Isaiah Pacheco, the seventh-round rookie out of

01:44 Rutgers. This year, it's a guy named Daenerick Prince, an undrafted free agent

01:49 out of Tulsa. 220 pounds, can catch the ball out of the backfield, can add to an

01:53 already deep group. And then takeaway number five is real simple. Patrick Mahomes,

01:57 is Patrick Mahomes. The Chiefs are gonna be good because of it. You see it out

02:00 there on the field, but you also see it in leadership. I was talking to Andy Reid

02:03 earlier today. He said Mahomes has played such an active role in the development

02:07 of young guys like Rice, like Moore, and that's gonna make the entire team

02:12 better. So you heard it here first. The Chiefs are a real competitor in

02:16 2023. That'll do it from here in St. Joe. Next stop, Minnesota.

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