Former Chiefs WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling will visit Chargers on Monday

There are a handful of former Kansas City Chiefs players still lingering on the open market these days, waiting for a place to call home in 2024. It can be a painful process to wait around for months on end, but perhaps one player's patience will be rewarded soon with a new visit for wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling.

NFL reporter Ari Meirov has word that the L.A. Chargers will be hosting Valdes-Scantling for a visit on Monday to start the week. He also noted that MVS has been on the team's radar "for weeks".

The Chargers have made several moves to completely reinvent their wide receiving corps in 2024.

Valdes-Scantling will be quite familiar with the Chargers and vice versa after having played against them twice in each of the last two seasons while in Kansas City. The AFC West foes always play tough games that seem to come down to the final minutes despite the Chiefs' tight grip on divisional supremacy for the last eight years.

Valdes-Scantling was released by the Chiefs earlier this offseason and has waited for a few months before finding any real free-agent traction. The final year of his initial three-year contract was too expensive for the Chiefs given his production and the move wasn't a surprise to anyone in Chiefs Kingdom.

That said, Valdes-Scantling does bring value to a new team as a veteran deep threat who has solid production in years past with playoff experience for a young team. Last year felt like a strange outlier of a season for MVS as he struggled like so many other receivers with miscues, dropped passes, poor chemistry and more. He finished the season with career low totals in catches (21) and receiving yards (315).

As for the Chargers, it will be interesting to see if they offer Valdes-Scantling a deal. He could help stretch the field for a unit that lacks deep threats although there is promise with second-round pick Ladd McConkey, last year's first-round pick Quentin Johnston, Joshua Palmer, and veteran D.J. Chark, who also just signed with the team.