Kansas City Chiefs: Early position impressions from training camp

I spent Friday and Saturday at Kansas City Chiefs training camp. Here are my early impressions of this year’s team before the preseason games start.

The 2018 Kansas City Chiefs have finally taken the field as a team as training camp kicked off in Saint Joseph, Missouri this past week. If you’ve never made it to training camp before, I can’t recommend it enough. For most of us it is the closest we ever get to the players that we spend so many hours following, studying, and cheering for. It also comes right after the NFL “dead zone” where there is so little to talk about. To get to watch the team you’ve been speculating over all offseason right up close is fantastic. Plus, practice is over in time to head into Kansas City afterwards for a fantastic BBQ lunch (I tried Q39 for the first time this year and it definitely lived up to the hype).

I don’t think anyone can make definitive statements about a team after watching two days of practice. However, I definitely feel like I have a better feel for where many players stand after watching a couple of days of practice. If you read several different writers takes on the team after watching practice you’ll probably see several similarities but you may also see some discrepancies as well. If you wanted to, you could take note of my takes in this post and probably find one I was wrong on and come back and throw it in my face, but overall I now feel pretty strongly about several players going into the preseason games.

I’m not going to give you a play-by-play of what happened in practice. You can find a lot of that on Twitter if you’re interested. Besides, by the time you’re reading this the practices I watched will already be yesterday’s news. Instead I’m going to give some takes on roster battles and certain players based on what I saw. Then you can keep those things in mind as you watch their preseason games later this month.

I decided the easiest way to break down my thoughts and observations was to just do one position group at a time. We might as well start with Patrick Mahomes and the quarterbacks and go from there.