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Chiefs thrilled about the return of Travis Kelce, who is ‘training like crazy’ | The Athletic
Kelce, the future Hall of Fame tight end, informed Reid that he wasn’t retiring less than a week after the Kansas City Chiefs’ disappointing loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX.
“I just wanted him to put it out there and not me,” Reid said Monday. “I always like guys to step back (after the season), but he wants to come back and he’s training like crazy, too.”
Ahead of what could be the final season of Kelce’s illustrious career, Reid said at the annual league meeting that the Chiefs plan to find better ways to support him within the structure of their offense. Last season, Kelce, 35, was forced to carry a lot of the offense along with quarterback Patrick Mahomes after receivers Rashee Rice and Marquise Brown and running back Isiah Pacheco suffered significant injuries. Kelce led the Chiefs with 133 targets, but his 823 receiving yards and three touchdowns were career lows.
Every NFL coach’s real job based on their group photo | SB Nation
Sean McDermott, Bills: Dentist with three outstanding malpractice lawsuits
Nick Sirianni, Eagles: Running his family’s sports bar into the ground. Featured in season three of Kitchen Nightmares
Andy Reid, Chiefs: Retired. Currently traveling coast-to-coast in his RV
Sean McVay, Rams: Financial planner advising all his customers to put their savings into “SpongeCoin.” Will eventually bankrupt them all and be investigated by SEC
2025 NFL Draft: Best first-round fits for all 32 teams | FOX Sports
Kansas City Chiefs
First-round draft position: No. 31
Biggest Need: Defensive tackle
Best Fit: Alfred Collins, Texas: Chris Jones remains one of the league’s very best players, but he’s entering his 10th season in the NFL and Kansas City’s depth behind him could use reinforcing. I’d like to see Jones paired with a massive and powerful nose guard from this class. Collins is a behemoth at 6-foot-6 and 332 pounds with a rare combination of power and agility. He is far from a finished product but is polished enough to play immediately while offering the same kind of home-run upside GM Brett Veach and Andy Reid have prioritized on draft day.
2025 NFL draft team needs: Depth chart holes, prospect fits | ESPN
Kansas City Chiefs
Top three needs: OT, DT, TE. The Chiefs might have found their starting left tackle when they signed Jaylon Moore in free agency, but possibly not. Moore is a career backup, so it’s in the Chiefs’ best interests to draft competition for him.
The Chiefs are short on depth at defensive tackle to play alongside Chris Jones. They added veteran Jerry Tillery in free agency, but he’s more of a rotational player, so there’s more work to be done. At tight end, Travis Kelce has one more season left in him, but it’s not too early for the Chiefs to think about an eventual replacement. — Adam Teicher
Prospect to fill a need outside Round 1:Charles Grant, OT, William & Mary. Signing Moore checks one box but doesn’t solve the team’s issue at right tackle. That is where the Chiefs can develop Grant, thanks to his athletic tools and potential.— Miller
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As expected, NFL Christmas tripleheader returns for 2025 | NBC Sports
With Christmas landing on a Thursday in 2025, the NFL will resume its three-window takeover of the day. The inevitability was made official on Tuesday.
As expected, Netflix will stream the first two games. Amazon, which has the Thursday Night Football package, will have the Christmas night game.
Last year, the NFL played only two games when Christmas landed on Wednesday. That happened after the NFL repeatedly said it will skip Christmas in the years that December 25 falls on Tuesday or Wednesday.
For Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, the league undoubtedly will go with three games. The only question is whether it will stick with two or move to three the next time Christmas lands on a Tuesday or Wednesday.
Commissioner Goodell: Decision on NFL players participating in 2028 Olympic flag football expected soon | NFL.com
“I think that’s something that we’ll continue to discuss with, not just the union, but also the clubs,” Goodell said, via The Associated Press. “I think both of those are things that we’ll probably resolve sometime in the next 60 days.”
In October of 2023, the International Olympic Committee added flag football for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Shortly thereafter, the league announced it would work with the NFL Players Association to allow current and former NFL players to participate. While work is still underway, anticipation and the hope of participation have grown.
“I’ve heard directly from a lot of players who want to participate and represent their country, whether it’s United States or the country that they came from,” Goodell said.
Tush push ban vote tabled by NFL owners for more discussion | ESPN
NFL owners plan to continue discussions about the Philadelphia Eagles’ short-yardage tush push play after tabling a proposal Tuesday to ban it, league officials said.
The Green Bay Packers authored the proposal, which earned the support of 16 NFL teams, two sources told ESPN’s Kalyn Kahler. NFL bylaws require a minimum of 24 votes to approve a change. The topic is likely to be revisited when owners gather for their spring meeting May 20-21 in Eagan, Minnesota.
The deliberations occupied owners, general managers and coaches for much of this week’s annual league meeting, mostly because it seemed to target the Super Bowl LIX champions for a legal play that has been largely unstoppable over the past three seasons. The Packers’ proposal was written specifically for the play, unlike most rule proposals, and would prohibit an offensive player from immediately pushing a teammate who is lined up directly behind the snapper and receives the snap.
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NFL owners make 4 rule changes for 2025; thoughts from Chiefs’ writers
Pelissero: As expected, NFL owners passed the rule making playoff overtime rules apply to regular season, too. Both teams get to possess the ball. But the rule was amended to make OT 10 minutes, not 15.
John Dixon: I think this is a bridge too far. Nobody likes ties, so I’m fine with the fastest way to avoid most of them in the regular season — and a different way to avoid them altogether in the postseason. I understand the argument: allowing games to end with one of the teams being unable to possess the ball in overtime does seem unfair on its face. But both teams were given a full 60 minutes to win. During the regular season, the best approach is to get it settled — and get ready for the next game.
Pete Sweeney: Both teams touching the football in overtime should have existed long ago. However, the second part of Pelissero’s note still baffles me. The league is seemingly OK with random stretches in the schedule (such as the Chiefs playing three games in 11 days) regarding player rest and safety, but a line is drawn at five extra minutes in overtime? In my opinion, shut off the game clock entirely, as we see in college. Nothing is worse than spending three-plus hours to watch a game end in a tie.
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Rashee Rice is “on track” to be ready for training camp, Andy Reid said when asked by The Star at the NFL meetings.
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— Sam McDowell (@SamMcDowell11) April 1, 2025
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