Kansas City Chiefs have the potential for perfection in 2020
The 2020 Offense should improve
I wrote previously about how the Kansas City Chiefs offense in 2020 should take a step forward from where they were in 2019. The offensive side of the ball is what the Kansas City Chiefs and Andy Reid are known for. They had a prolific and historic campaign in 2018 and followed that up with a modest regression, for various reasons, in 2019.
Entering 2020, the offense will be much closer in their overall makeup to the 2018 Kansas City Chiefs largely because of their draft class. In the first round, the Chiefs added arguably the most versatile running back in the entire class in Clyde Edwards-Helaire.
There are a number of pundits and fans who remain somewhat skeptical of this pick. This is understandable, given it is generally frowned upon to take a running back in the first round. The positive spin is that the Chiefs offense absolutely exploded in the playoffs, and you could argue it was the play of running back Damien Williams that ignited that explosion.
Isn’t this more reason to bemoan expending valuable draft capital, the team’s first first-round selection in a number of years, on a running back? A week or so after the Super Bowl victory, I wrote that I believed Damien Williams had solved the team’s running back woes. He was arguably the team’s second most consistent player after Patrick Mahomes in that three-game playoff stretch.
Truthfully, the running back position last season was actually somewhat of a disaster up until that point. None of the running backs on the roster demonstrated consistent enough ability to be relied upon on a game by game basis. Clyde Edwards-Helaire, a player who just won a national championship on the best and most NFL-like offense in college, should provide that consistency.
If Damien Williams and Clyde Edwards-Helaire are able to duplicate even 90 percent of Damien Williams’ playoff production on a consistent basis in 2020, the offense could easily score closer to the 39 points per game it did in the playoffs than the 29.5 points per game it did in the regular season.