KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two of the highest extensive receivers out there on the commerce market, Davante Adams and Amari Cooper, have been dealt this week, however neither to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
That is to not the dismay of quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who stated the Chiefs have sufficient expertise at extensive receiver to get the place they wish to go.
“I’ve excessive confidence with the blokes which are on that soccer discipline,” Mahomes stated. “They’ve gained video games, they’ve gained Tremendous Bowls, they’ve made performs in huge moments and Brett Veach has completed an important job of bringing gamers in that may step up at any time when their quantity is named.
“Each time I step on that soccer discipline, I really feel like now we have one of the best capacity to win, and I believe that is a credit score to Brett Veach and coach [Andy] Reid bringing in guys that basically get after it and put within the work to be nice each single day.”
The Chiefs may nonetheless add a receiver earlier than the commerce deadline subsequent month. They misplaced two of their prime extensive receivers in Rashee Rice and Hollywood Brown to harm.
That leaves the Chiefs with Xavier Worthy, JuJu Smith-Schuster and Justin Watson as their prime three wideouts. Worthy, the Chiefs’ first-round draft choose, has 12 catches and 4 touchdowns, together with two dashing. Smith-Schuster had seven catches for 130 yards within the Chiefs’ most up-to-date recreation in opposition to the New Orleans Saints whereas Watson has six catches for 87 yards this season.
Mahomes known as Sunday’s recreation on the San Francisco 49ers “as huge as a daily season recreation you can play in” due to the current historical past between the groups. The Chiefs beat the 49ers in extra time in final season’s Tremendous Bowl and in Tremendous Bowl LIV by scoring three touchdowns within the fourth quarter.
“Every time you may have two nice soccer groups that meet up within the Tremendous Bowl and meet up in all these huge video games, there’s going to be a historical past between that and so clearly we have been in a position to win these video games,” Mahomes stated. “However we all know how good this soccer workforce is and now we have a ton of respect for them and so it isn’t like one play could not have modified all these soccer video games and so we’re going with that mindset of we have simply received to make the performs at any time when they depend.”