More Moves Coming... Report Reveals HUGE Update | Kansas City Chiefs News

More moves are coming for the Kansas City Chiefs as following trading for Josh Downs moments before the trade deadline, new reports have started to fly revealing that not only are the Chiefs not done, reports are starting to fly surrounding Tyreek Hill after his agent has just given multiple updates revealing that his return is going to be coming. We're going to break down these new reports and discuss how this team is not done and what they can do to improve going forward. We're going to break it all down before we get into a quick reminder to hit that subscribe button. Let's dive right into it. Obviously, the Chiefs traded for Josh Downs, and we saw a report drop from Nate Taylor on 96.5 The Fan saying that trading for Downs wouldn't stop the Chiefs from signing Tyreek Hill or Brandon Ayuk. But where does this all stem from? Well, his agent came out today and said, right now, I'm working the phones for Tyreek Hill. His agent Rosenhaus expects Hill to be medically cleared in the next few weeks and he even told Pat McAfee that he thinks Hill is close and he expects him to be playing and making things happen this season. He also said that he's working the phones for his guys that want to be traded so Hill isn't his only client in play but the second he's cleared the agent says that he's letting teams know they can sign him and people around this team think Kansas City is first in line. They aren't done, which is what Mark Gunnell said this afternoon, who fully expects the Chiefs to bring in Hill once he's cleared. And there's been a bunch of different reports. Obviously, Brandon Ayuk is another name who I'm less excited about, but it's, I mean, this has been building for a long time and it does make sense to, you know, after you get Josh Downs, that's step one. Step two needs to be bringing in another wide receiver. This room still needs some big, big help. And this has been building since the winter. Back in February, Andy Reid said that there's nothing happening surrounding Tyreek Hill right now. We know what you know. But then, September, Fowler was reporting that Hill remains fond of the Chiefs. And I covered that on the channel. Around then, Rosenhaus went on a Pat McAfee show and said Hill will impact the playoff race. And we saw on October 4th, Mike Silver of The Athletic reported the Chiefs had already reached out to his agent. And the next day, Hill posted, KC, I miss you on Snapchat, with his old teammates noticing, go and keep going, brother, from Mahomes. And of course, Chris Jones, cheetah, it's time. That same week, his agent expected Hill to sign within days. It's now five weeks later and he still hasn't. So the players want him. The agent keeps pushing. The team keeps checking in. What held it up was his knee injury. So what injury is that? On September 29th last year against the Jets, Hill dislocated his left knee, tore multiple ligaments, including his ACL, and his season ended after four games with just 21 catches good for 265 yards. Now, before he went down, he was still the center of that offense. 53.5% of Miami's air yards went to him. Miami released him on February 16th anyway, and he's been a free agent ever since. And Miami is still carrying that $28.25 million of dead money on his season, paying him not to play there. But his yards were slightly slipping before the injury. So I'm not expecting Tyreek Hill to be the Tyreek Hill of 2021. Because in 2023, he had 1,799 receiving yards, which was the most of his career. In 2024, he played all 17 games and finished with 959 receiving yards. He caught 81 passes that year, 38 fewer than the year before. So by now, the recovery has run more than 13 months. He's 32. His whole game, which is speed, is a little bit scary because he's coming back from a knee injury that does end a lot of careers. So why does Kansas City keep circling back to him? Because of what he was to this team. I mean, from 2016 to 2021, he'll put up over 6,600 yards, caught 56 touchdowns in six of those seasons. And his best year in red was 2018, sorry, which Mahomes' first year as a starter, putting up nearly 1,500 yards. But it didn't stop there. 2020, 15 touchdowns, 2021, a lot of, you know, 111 passes caught. And then it ended over money when they traded him to the Miami Dolphins because they didn't want to extend him. And then, of course, Miami gave him that lucrative four-year $120 million contract. So what does this all mean at this point, right? The Hill trade played out the way that it did. And since that trade, no Chiefs receiver has had a 1,000-yard season. And this year, the room got even thinner. Rasheed Rice, injured. Now he's back, not playing amazing. He's okay. Tyquan Thornton, injured. Xavier Worthy, injured right now, but also not playing great. And their WR1 is Josh Downs. But realistically, without Tyree Kill, this offense has stalled. So much so that two weeks ago in Seattle, the whole offense scored only three points. And the week after, of course, they lost by four in Denver. The Jets, they went, they need a wide receiver even after Josh Downs. I do think that, you know, Mahomes is going to make Josh Downs look really good. Some people are saying he's going to make him look like Zay Flowers 2.0. They need to improve the team even more. And that's why Tyreek Hill makes sense. A pivot for a second, we can kind of talk about, like I just mentioned, Josh Downs. And more reports dropped revealing the reason they actually went out and got him. ESPN's Jeremy Fowler said that the Chiefs had a fourth round offer on the table for a very long time and that the Chiefs, or rather the Steelers, were in on him as well, but the Chiefs let their fourth round pick linger because the Colts wanted to get a third. Kansas City never moved up to a third. They let the deadline do the work and then every Colts loss obviously made a third harder to justify because they were losing leverage. And when it was all said and done, the Chiefs added a fifth. In Fowler's words, they found the sweet spot and Downs became a Kansas City Chief and he's already tweeting Kansas City. You know, fans love him and already Patrick Mahomes is tweeting back and around the league. It is clear that guess what? Josh Downs wanted Kansas City. And I'm going to have a full video probably covering him tomorrow, but his separation numbers are very, very impressive. And I think there is a very real world here where they can put him in as the WR1 and really let him roll and potentially extend him and kind of fill the void that, I mean, Rasheed Rice hasn't been able to fill this year. Which brings us all back to Tyreek Hill. Once he's cleared, the room would be... Downs in the slot, Rice and Worthy and Hill on the outside, and Kelsey at tight end. Downs obviously lives in the slot, but he creates an immense amount of separation, by far the most in the team, so Hill wouldn't be taking his job. He'd be the one running past safeties over the top, which is what he should do, because that's exactly what, you know, Josh Downs doesn't really do that well, whereas Josh Downs kind of creates separation. Which right now is the spot that, you know, Worthy is supposed to own, what, you know, Tyreek Hill would come in, but the money... Worthy hasn't really been doing that great this season, so the money does become tight though because before the Downs deal, the Chiefs had $3.63 million in cap space, and whatever Hill signs for has to fit what's left this year, which is nowhere near the $30 million that they paid him. Of course, it can't reach into 2027, Mahomes' cap hit jumps all the way up to $90 million, but Rice's deal ends after this season, so does Downs. Worthy is the only one of the three signed for 2027, so any Hill deal is a rental for the stretch run in the playoffs, and that's it. But guess what? If he performs really well, you could easily make an argument and justification to bring him back and sign him again. And the reason this is so prominent now as well is for these hamstring injuries. Brings us to another injury, obviously Patrick Mahomes. His right elbow has him day-to-day, which is what Andy Reid said on Monday. And Mahomes said if he's able to play, he's going to play. And on the trades, again, Andy Reid said he's going to leave it up to Brett Veach. And Brett Veach got the job done. But when we look at the schedule, Atlanta Sunday, Josh Downs is already en route to Kansas City, should be available for that game. But this is a team that is built to play in January. They're built to be a playoff team. And that's why I think it makes sense for them to go after Tyreek Hill. There's also Brandon Ayuk there. Ayuk is younger, maybe a little bit better right now, but I'm going to save that for another video. I'm not entirely sure that taking on the drama there makes a ton of sense. I think I would actually much rather get Tyreek Hill and just see what he can do, even if he isn't better. It'd be kind of just a bit more fun, which sounds a little crazy, but it's kind of how I feel. So my call, I think Downs was absolutely the right move at the right price. A fourth. For a guy who wanted to be here, picks are still in hand in the first, second, third round, and clearly he's already embracing Kansas City. Now for Tyree Kill, clearly moves aren't done for the Kansas City Chiefs, and I think Tyree Kill would be an absolutely fantastic, fantastic pick, and I would absolutely, I mean, I don't see really a reason why not. Is it super likely? We don't know at this point, but if he's healthy, because, you know, if it was a lot of other teams, it probably wouldn't make a lot of sense, but for the Chiefs to have familiarity there, Andy Reid is still the head coach, Patrick Mahomes is still the quarterback. Even if he's pretty rough, the wide receiver room right now is pretty rough, and there's obviously going to be the doubt about his knee, his lack of production, or his decreasing production before he got hurt, but why not go out and do it, right? Why not go out and get a guy like Tyreek Hill, see what he can do. Worst case, he fights for a spot, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. Comment down below what your guys' thoughts are, and we'll see you in a video tomorrow. I'm warning you guys, we're absolute beasts. Thank you guys for watching. We'll see you later.