Kansas City Chiefs training camp finally kicks off this week. Here are the top ten roster battles for you to watch in camp this year.
Kansas City Chiefs fans rejoice! Training camp kicks off this week and the long NFL dead zone from the NFL draft until training camp is finally coming to an end. No longer do we have to fill our free time speculating how things will play out or dealing with offseason drama around a certain wide receiver and how the media is covering it.
No, my fellow fans, we get actual on the field action to dissect and discuss. Hallelujah! I don’t care if it’s just practice. Training camp is one of my absolute favorite times of the year. Not only is it the official kick off of another Chiefs season, it’s when we get to see how the new players the Chiefs have added will fit in and how the roster shapes up.
Every year I make a trip up to camp from Wichita to watch practice for a day or two, and every year I have a list of players and positions to watch. While its fun to see your favorite big name players up close in action, they aren’t the ones fighting for playing time or a spot on the roster. That is where the real intrigue of camp is for me.
If you’ve never been to training camp before, I can’t recommend it enough. There is an up-close-and-personal feel to it that you just don’t get at actual games (especially where I usually have to sit). So if you’re within driving distance of St. Joseph and you’ve been debating going, stop thinking about it and just do it. You won’t regret it. (Just watch the weather forecast, because I have driven all the way there only to have practice moved inside due to rain—and made off limits to the public.)
Regardless, if you go to camp to see the action with your own two eyes or simply keep up with what’s going on at camp through media reports, I thought it would be good to give you my top ten training camp battles to keep an eye on. I’m 100% sure that my list won’t be the same as everyone else’s, but these are the spots where I think the battles could have the biggest impact on the team we see play on Sundays once the regular season starts.
Let’s “kick” things off with No. 10.