On Tuesday morning, the Kansas City chiefs conducted their 12th full practice of the 2022 training camp at their practice field at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Tuesday’s session was a full contact session with pads. It was sunny and quite chilly – and everyone’s spirits lifted when we learned that cornerback Rashad Fenton was removed from the Active/PUP list and would be attending practice.
Pete Sweeney, editor-in-chief of Arrowhead Pride, was among the other chiefs beating up reporters and television crews and watching everything that happened. Pete’s observations have already been published on Twitter.
Now we share them here – starting with a known offensive line.
The offensive line was back to normal, with the usual suspects and Andrew Wylie occupying the proper tackle position. Second team, left to right: Geron Christian, Nick Allegretti, Austin Reiter, Mike Caliendo and Roderick Johnson; Darian Kinnard was back in third-team right tackle.
— Pete Sweeney (@pgsween) August 9, 2022
Just like they did with Orlando Brown Jr. and Carlos Dunlap when they arrived late at camp, the Chiefs are Work Fenton into the mixture.
Chiefs A-GM Mike Borgonzi on the young CBs: “Every year we lose some players, so we lost Charvarius (Ward)…last year it was more the offensive line, this year it was the defensive backs. We’ve made it a priority to bring a lot of people here to improve the competition.”
— Pete Sweeney (@pgsween) August 9, 2022
It’s not every day a Beatles reference is found at a Chiefs press conference.
One wrinkle I thought was excellent…the Chiefs drafted five defensemen in the NFL draft. Defensive backs coach Dave Merritt says he calls them (McDuffie, Bryan Cook, Williams, Watson and Johnson) the “Fab Five.”
“Most of them weren’t even born yet,” he smiled after practice.
— Pete Sweeney (@pgsween) August 9, 2022
Two of the guys are probably the best wideouts on the team worked fine on Tuesday.
WR’s trainer Joe Bleymaier about JuJu: “His personality is contagious. It’s great to be with him. he works hard He’s a great player [Travis Kelce]. He just knows the game. In passing, his style of distance running, it makes him open.”
— Pete Sweeney (@pgsween) August 9, 2022
The team’s new defensive end taken something.
Defensively, LB Willie Gay had a Mahomes pass resolution in 11s. At one point DE Carlos Dunlap tried to forget where he was and brought down QB Chad Henne. Henne didn’t particularly like it. Johnson and CB Dicaprio Bootle had PBUs on Henne before he threw a TD to Justin Watson
— Pete Sweeney (@pgsween) August 9, 2022
Peter had some thoughts of offensive and defensive exercises.
Defensively during 7-on-7, LB Nick Bolton broke a Mahomes pass meant for TE Noah Gray. S Devon Key intercepted Henne.
— Pete Sweeney (@pgsween) August 9, 2022
It’s hard to tell if this command means anything yet… but still, Here it is.
The order of the top four running backs during Tuesday’s running period were Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Jerick McKinnon, Isiah Pacheco and Ronald Jones.
— Pete Sweeney (@pgsween) August 9, 2022
The men in the trenches walked in a row Mano a mano.
Outstanding OL vs. DL (no order)
OL: Creed Humphrey, Joe Thuney, Orlando Brown, Geron Christian, Prince Tega Wanogho, Nick Allegretti
DL: Malik Herring (maybe his best look in camp), Carlos Dunlap, Turk Wharton
— Pete Sweeney (@pgsween) August 9, 2022
There were also One-to-one exercises to pass.
It was a good look for defense in the early one-on-ones. McDuffie had two really good replays against WR Mecole Hardman, including an INT and a PBU. Williams, CB Chris Lammons and CB Lonnie Johnson all had INTs. Johnson bounced the ball and held after three tips.
— Pete Sweeney (@pgsween) August 9, 2022
Pete noticed a few Defense highlights.
On Fenton’s return, he covered Smith-Schuster really well in a one-on-one in the red zone, but Smith-Schuster made a great play to parry him and put two feet inside. Moore caught a nice jump ball against Nazeeh and WR Corey Coleman had a dive catch.
— Pete Sweeney (@pgsween) August 9, 2022
Finally Dave Toub worked on his weird timing.
Chiefs Special Teams Coordinator Dave Toub: “[Reid] always depends on the field goal practice. I just wanted to surprise him. Throw him in there, see how he would handle it…”
*3 second break*
“I don’t think we’ve found our backup kicker yet.”
— Pete Sweeney (@pgsween) August 9, 2022
In today’s notebook, Matt Nagy feels at home in Kansas City and considers it his “special place.” Heading back to his old home on Saturday (also our post-training chat, press sound, injury report, tweet and quote of the day and what’s next): https://t.co/yGVzveLqAy
— Pete Sweeney (@pgsween) August 9, 2022
The Chiefs will take a day off on Wednesday, practice again on Thursday, and then prepare for Saturday’s road preseason game against the Chicago Bears. Kick-off is set for noon (arrowhead time). The last four training camp sessions take place from Monday to Thursday.