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One can't assistance but beryllium a small spot suspicious of the Kansas City Chiefs' program for the near tackle presumption successful 2025.
After utilizing 4 starters astatine the presumption successful 2024, the Chiefs gave a two-year, $30 cardinal declaration to four-year San Francisco 49ers seasoned Jaylon Moore. So is Moore the blindside protector for Patrick Mahomes that Kansas City was looking for?
He could be, of course, but his way grounds is simply a spot unusual for idiosyncratic who got a multi-year deal. Of his 55 vocation appearances, lone 12 are starts, including 5 this past play for an injury-plagued 49ers squad.
If Moore isn't the answer, oregon if the Chiefs lone spot him arsenic a stopgap portion they look for their semipermanent solution astatine near tackle, possibly Kansas City could look to the NFL Draft adjacent week arsenic an opportunity.
On Monday, Mike Band of NFL.com projected a trade betwixt the Chiefs and Minnesota Vikings that would springiness Kansas City the 24th wide pick, which helium predicted they would usage connected Texas near tackle Kelvin Banks Jr.
"The Chiefs commercialized up to No. 24 to unafraid their semipermanent reply astatine near tackle, leapfrogging Houston, a squad that could besides people violative enactment assistance astatine No. 25," Band wrote.
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"The past clip the Chiefs came disconnected a Lombardi Trophy-free season, GM Brett Veach and caput manager Andy Reid made a similar move up the board to unafraid a request and draught cornerback Trent McDuffie."
Banks, a junior, was a first-team All-American this past play and won some the Lombardi Award and Outland Trophy, which would thin to bespeak voters thought helium was the champion violative lineman successful the country.
As Mahomes turns 30 this season, the Chiefs are going to person to marque a semipermanent program to support him upright. Perhaps that program starts with the acquisition of Banks.
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