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The Kansas City Chiefs have wrapped up their mandatory minicamp and will now break for a little over a month before training camp.
Between OTAs and mandatory minicamp, Chiefs HC Andy Reid has a 13-practice sample size of seeing his team in action. That includes a ton of new faces, with several veteran free agents and rookies across the roster. One position group with the most turnover has been the wide receiver room, with just a few holdovers from previous seasons.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Reid gave an update on the progress of some of the new receivers and the team’s most veteran player at the position.
“Yeah, I really liked the way (JuJu Smith-Schuster and Marquez Valdes-Scantling) worked,” Reid said. “They have a nice connection with Pat (Mahomes) up to this point. I’d be curious to see how it gets when there are live bullets and all that stuff. We’ll see how that rolls but I wouldn’t expect anything much different than what I’ve been seeing. And the other guys too have worked in there. Mecole (Hardman) has upped his game here and done a nice job. Our young kid, Skyy (Moore), he’s mixed in there and he’s been good. I like the mixture that we’ve got going.”
With no live contact up to this point, the only thing that Andy Reid really hasn’t seen from his receiver group is blocking. He often refers to OTAs and minicamp as “passing camps” because really most of what they do is throwing the ball. Because of that, Reid feels like he has a pretty good idea of what the entire receiver group is capable of.
Speaking solely on rookie receiver Skyy Moore, Reid seemed impressed. Moore missed rookie minicamp and was limited during a portion of OTAs with a hamstring injury, but he seems to be picking up the offense and flashing his abilities now that he’s healthy.
“You know what, he looks strong,” Reid said of Moore. “You see that in the way he’s built physically, but that transfers. You see those big hands he has, he catches everything. He’s a good route runner. Smart kid, seemed to pick it up well.”
The team will break ahead of training camp, but the receivers should have another opportunity to get some work in with Patrick Mahomes out in Texas during the break. They’ll continue to build that chemistry and work on some things away from the team in order to be best prepared for training camp when they report in late July.
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