When people talk about the Chiefs needing to add Wide Receiver depth, a lot of other Chiefs fans will respond that “this is the exact same offense -JuJu +Rashee that got us a Superbowl last year, we don’t need it” which is incredibly misguided because the league changes every single year.

The Buccaneers won a superbowl (against us I’ll add). Proceeded to bring back every single player and coach from that SB team, add in the draft and free agency, then lost in the Divisional to a Rams team that went all in. What was good enough last year, may not be good this year.

Players develop, players age, the tape adds up. The offensive scheming is not at the level it was last year. Kelce is a year older and having a down year. 2 of our WR bets in Skyy and Toney have not worked out. And it’s hard not to see that players that were integral to our SB run can’t even make the field on much much worse teams

The sky isn’t falling, its not panic mode. We’re still leading the AFC and you still have to believe that Andy, Veach, and Mahomes will do everything they think is necessary to win another SB. And if nothing happens on the deadline today I’ll still trust they made the right choice, but WR is a real need and people aren’t being fair weather fans for pointing it out.

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    1 year ago

    Kelce through 8 games

    DNP

    26 yards

    69 yards

    60 yards

    67 yards

    124 yards

    179 yards

    58 yards

    2 good games…Out of 8

    Yeah he’s declining

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      1 year ago

      The numbers don’t back that up.

      2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018
      DNP 121 76 50 88 6
      26 51 109 90 107 109
      69 58 104 87 89 114
      60 92 23 70 85 78
      67 25 57 108 70 100
      124 108 99 65 58 61
      179 98 65 31 44 95
      58 106 27 109 63 79
      83.3ypg 82.4ypg 70ypg 76.3ypg 75.5ypg 80.3ypg

      Yards per game do not count games he didn’t play in at all.

      So he’s actually slightly better than what his best year was on a per-game basis.

      He’s in his 6th season of Mahomes throwing him the ball. If you take his total yards through 8 games it comes out to 72ypg, meaning it’s not even his worst first 8 weeks of those 6 years…and it’s in 7 games.