Tag: Derrick Blaylock

Throwback Thursday: Chiefs set NFL record with 8 rushing TDs vs. Falcons in 2004

#TBT to when the #Chiefs were a much different team and set an NFL record for team rushing touchdowns in a single game:

The NFL and the Kansas City Chiefs have changed quite a bit since 2004. Most offenses in the league were predicated on a strong running game, including Kansas City’s offense under former head coach Dick Vermeil.

During Week 7 of that season, the Chiefs stamped their names in the NFL history books when it comes to rushing offense. After the team got wind of some bulletin board material because of its 1-4 start to the season, it changed up the game plan against the Atlanta Falcons.

K.C. would run the ball 49 times for 271 yards, averaging 5.5 yards per attempt. Teammates Priest Holmes and Derrick Blaylock each rushed for four touchdowns to set an NFL record for the most rushing touchdowns by a team in a single game.

“We were getting ready to play the Falcons and they were talking like mad junk,” former Chiefs FB Tony Richardson said, via KC Sports Network’s One-on-One. “And so Vermeil was like, ‘We’re going to run the ball every single down.'”

They had the ability to pound the rock because they had a world-class offensive line featuring Willie Roaf, Brian Waters, Casey Wiegmann, Will Shields and John Welbourn.

The Chiefs took a 35-3 halftime lead and cruised to a 56-10 win. No passing touchdowns were thrown by either team. After the game, Waters became the first offensive lineman to ever be named the AFC Offensive Player of the Week.

Unless the NFL has a vast change in offensive philosophy, the record of eight rushing touchdowns may stand the test of time.

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Chiefs rookie DT Keondre Coburn training with Derrick Blaylock in Texas

Another #Chiefs rookie is training with Derrick Blaylock at Armed Sports Performance in Texas.

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It appears that Deneric Prince isn’t the only Kansas City rookie training with former Chiefs RB Derrick Blaylock this offseason.

The former fifth-round pick in the 2001 NFL draft now does athletic training in Humble, Texas at Armed Sports Performance. There, Blaylock trains college and pro athletes, even working with Chiefs WR Mecole Hardman in the past.

He helped Prince prepare during the pre-draft process and afterward. Now, Blaylock is helping another Chiefs rookie as he gets prepared for his first NFL training camp in July.

Blaylock shared a clip of Chiefs rookie DT Keondre Coburn training at Armed Sports Performance. Check it out:

Coburn is moving well and looking pretty spry for a defensive tackle listed at 6-foot-2 and 330 pounds. He’ll need to get in great shape to be ready for the onset of training camp because Andy Reid’s conditioning tests are known to be quite tough.

It shouldn’t be a big surprise to see Coburn, who is a Tyler, Texas native, Westfield High School grad and University of Texas alumni training in the area. It is fun, however, to see players from the Chiefs’ past and present collide with Blaylock having transitioned into a post-NFL career.

Update: It appears that Prince is also currently out training with Blaylock in Texas.

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Derrick Blaylock helped train new Chiefs RB Deneric Prince

A former #Chiefs running back trained the newest undrafted free agent running back in Kansas City.

One of the newest running backs for the Kansas City Chiefs was trained by a player who played for the franchise for three seasons.

Former Chiefs TE Jason Dunn and co-host Marcus Dash recently spoke to undrafted free agent RB Deneric Prince on their Chief Concerns podcast. Prince revealed that he worked with former Chiefs RB Derrick Blaylock during the pre-draft process.

“My season ended kind of early, in November,” Prince said. “So I was like the first one in the facility. I met (Derrick) Blaylock and he was a good guy. He helped me prepare for the East-West Shrine Bowl and helped me get prepared for the combine. He helped with my speed, agility, my jumps — he helped me increase all of that.”

Blaylock was a former fifth-round draft pick by Kansas City, coming out of Stephen F. Austin. He now does athletic training outside of Houston, Texas at Armed Sports Performance, where he’s worked with college athletes and even some NFL players. Prince, of course, is from the Houston area. That’s how he linked up with Blaylock and why he’ll continue to train with him.

“I still train with him,” Prince said. “I was with him earlier today. I’m staying with him.”

Prince told Dunn and Dash that he hadn’t yet taken the time to ask Blaylock much about the organization or his time in Kansas City, but that there would be a time for that in the future. For now, he’s focused on his training so that he’s best prepared for his opportunity.

“I love to compete,” Prince said. “That’s like my favorite thing to do — to compete.”

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WATCH: Mecole Hardman training with former Chiefs RB Derrick Blaylock

Hardman is working to increase his speed with former Chiefs RB Derrick Blaylock.

Kansas City Chiefs WR Mecole Hardman has been making the rounds during the 2020 offseason, training with a number of different people in a number of different places.

He’s worked with “The Footwork King” in Houston, Texas. He traveled a bit closer to Kansas City to work on releases with East St. Louis Flyer’s WR coach Terry Fenton. He even headed down to Florida to catch passes from Washington QB Dwayne Haskins, who his former teammate from the U-19 U.S. National Football Team.

Now, Hardman is working on increasing his speed in Humble, Texas at Armed Sports Performance, which is owned by former Chiefs RB Derrick Blaylock.

A fifth-round pick out of Stephen F. Austin by Kansas City in the 2001 NFL Draft, Blaylock played with the Chiefs from 2001-2004, backing up Priest Holmes and Larry Johnson. He’d appear in 40 games for Kansas City during his NFL career, starting in five games. After his time in the NFL was over, Blaylock dedicated his career to training athletes.

This instance was actually the first time that Hardman had worked with Blaylock. Hardman hit 23 mph during the video, which was nearly 2 mph faster than his top speed recorded by NFL’s Next Gen Stats against the Tennessee Titans last season. Blaylock thinks that Hardman can go even faster.

Blaylock knows a thing or two about speed, recording a 4.36 40-yard dash at the 2001 NFL Scouting Combine. If he thinks that Hardman can continue to get faster, he’s probably onto something.

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