The Kansas City Chiefs are back in action, with quarterbacks, rookies and injured players reporting to training camp on Friday.
Chiefs HC Andy Reid spoke to the media, providing an update on the team’s injured players. He explained that there were some players who would be up with the team and working at the onset of camp, while there are others who are still working back from injury.
“Just on the injury front, we’ve got some guys that are up here that will work,” Reid said. “DeAndre Baker, Taco Charlton, Juan Thornhill — they’ll be doing some activities up here in the next couple of days.”
Baker, to this point, hadn’t taken part in any offseason workouts with the team following surgery to repair a broken femur suffered in Week 17 of the 2020 NFL season. Three other injured players will remain sidelined at the start of Chiefs training camp, with some new information on an injury suffered by a veteran safety this offseason.
“Malik Herring, he’ll be up here,” Reid said. “He had the knee, ACL. He’ll just be rehabbing that. And Armani Watts will be up here. He had a foot fracture and is doing well.”
Herring looks to almost certainly be heading for a redshirt season. Meanwhile, we now know that the injury that kept Watts from the practice field during OTAs and mandatory minicamp was a broken foot. He doesn’t seem to be ready to return to action quite yet.
Finally, Reid discussed the injury to right guard Kyle Long, noting that he hadn’t yet joined the team at training camp. His original injury timeline put him potentially missing the entirety of training camp and the preseason, but Reid expressed some optimism on his rehabilitation.
“Kyle Long is also improving, he is improving and really doing a great job with his rehab likewise,” Reid said. “He will not be up here for this go around for the next couple of days. But he has been rehabbing with us.”
Including injured players, the Chiefs already have 30 players up at training camp for some pre-camp work ahead of the arrival of the veteran players next Monday.
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