The 2024 NFL offseason is in full effect. Most of this year’s free agents have been signed. The draft has come and gone. Now’s the moment where teams and players can relax a bit.
Except when you’re an offensive lineman, WWE Monday Night Raw has come to your town and your starting quarterback has a front row seat. In that case, there is no offseason.
That’s the situation Kansas City Chiefs starters Trey Smith and Creed Humphrey found themselves in when the WWE stopped at the T-Mobile Center for its flagship weekly show. Mahomes had a starring role throughout, even giving social-media-parasite-turned-shockingly-good-wrestler Logan Paul his Super Bowl rings to abet in a (foiled) attack.
But when 6-foot-8, 386-pound Braun Strowman got in Mahomes’ face later in the evening, it was time for two of the league’s best blockers to do what they do best.
QB1 is off limits 😤😤 pic.twitter.com/4kQSgOSmQ7
— Trey Smith (@treysmith) April 30, 2024
In the matchup between strongman bod and dad bod, Mahomes was outclassed. But Humphrey and Smith rose up to ensure their quarterback would live to see another season.
Those two aren’t the only elite linemen getting reps in the WWE this spring. Jason Kelce and Lane Johnson made their Wrestlemania debuts earlier in the month, helping Rey Mysterio continue his legendary career with a win at wrestling’s biggest event. In an industry that values big meaty men slapping meat nearly as much as the NFL does, this may be the beginning of a big man renaissance in the squared circle.