The Kansas Cty Chiefs’ new offensive lineman, Kelechi Osemele, had a perfect start to his NFL career.
As a rookie with the Baltimore Ravens in 2013, Osemele worked his way into the starting lineup, went to the playoffs and won a Super Bowl title. Since then, Osemele has only made the playoffs twice. He went once more with the Ravens in 2014 and then in his first season with the Oakland Raiders in 2016 as a wild-card team. After being released from the New York Jets three games into the 2019 season, Osemele will look to cap off his NFL career helping Kansas City win back-to-back Super Bowl titles.
“I was pretty excited,” Osemele said of learning he would sign with the Chiefs. “I was fired up, I mean the first thing I thought of was playing with Mahomes, and I actually accidentally leaked his phone number because I did an Instagram whatever, I did a video, I had his number out there, so I had to take it down real quick. But I was so excited I didn’t even think about it. Yeah, I was pretty hype and my agent called me and instantly the first thing I thought about was this was a really good team. We got a chance to win the championship, I haven’t won one in eight seasons since my rookie year, so I thought immediately, ‘Should be a beautiful way to kind of cap off a long NFL career.’ So those are all the thoughts going through my head.”
The new offensive lineman is not only a previous Super Bowl champion but also a two-time pro-bowler with Oakland. He was also ranked on NFL Network’s top 100 players list in 2017, coming in at No. 95 among his peers.
Osemele is expected to compete right away for one of the starting guard positions for Kansas City with vacancies on both the left and right sides. If Osemele is able to come in and make an impact right away, this could go down as another great under-the-radar signing by Brett Veach.
It never hurts to have a veteran offensive lineman with Super Bowl aspirations. Osemele should fit in just fine as the Chiefs work to run it back in 2020.
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