A new weapon for Patrick Mahomes: Former Ravens and Cardinals WR Marquise “Hollywood” Brown is expected to sign a one-year deal with the Kansas City Chiefs, per sources.
During is final season in Baltimore in 2021, Brown had 91 catches for 1,008 yards and six touchdowns. During… pic.twitter.com/oGD82iazKb
Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath15:
Have been thinking about this all morning. Not much out there unless you're willing to take some risks, or bring back Jet.
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
I was thinking about that this morning.
If the Chiefs do nothing else - INCLUDING in the draft - they'll have pass catchers on par or better than the 2022 offense.
Rice > JJSS
Brown > MVS
Kelce < 2022 Kelce
But the downgrade in Kelce will be more than offset by the upgrades at the WR spot.
So again, just get a little more juice at RB2 in terms of pass-catching and you may not even NEED to drastically upgrade at WR in the draft.
But we're gonna do it anyway. And that's the fun part.
I think if you look at the underneath weapons, 22 Kelce gave you more explosive YAC than 24 Kelce will, but Rice is a lot more dynamic than Smith-Schuster. So I think that’s a wash, honestly.
Then you’re down to Brown vs Valdez-Scantling, and while they’re roughly similar deep threats, Brown is able to do some much more off of his deep threat.
We’re going to see him absolutely demolishing some safeties and creating insane separation on corners and posts… at least until teams stop playing single high and sit in two deep all the time… [Reply]
Hmmmm. Seeing this makes X Worthy a bit more interesting IMO, I'd welcome Brooks, Benson, Wright, Lloyd, Corum, or Guerendo at RB as well. Chiefs could try and out speed the Dolphins! [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
I was thinking about that this morning.
If the Chiefs do nothing else - INCLUDING in the draft - they'll have pass catchers on par or better than the 2022 offense.
Rice > JJSS
Brown > MVS
Kelce < 2022 Kelce
But the downgrade in Kelce will be more than offset by the upgrades at the WR spot.
So again, just get a little more juice at RB2 in terms of pass-catching and you may not even NEED to drastically upgrade at WR in the draft.
But we're gonna do it anyway. And that's the fun part.
I think things will be even a bit better than this because I expect we’re going to get a lot more out of Smith as the number 2 tight end and that will make it easier to rest Kelce. [Reply]
Originally Posted by gordonelloyd:
I think things will be even a bit better than this because I expect we’re going to get a lot more out of Smith as the number 2 tight end and that will make it easier to rest Kelce.
Smith has been in the league awhile and never really done much so don't expect a ton, he's basically replacing Jody Fortson cause dude can't stay healthy. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
It's the moves he doesn't try to make anymore that show he's learning to deal with aging a bit.
When he gets in the open field, he's not going to try to plant that foot and cut as often as he once did. He runs straight and finishes the run for another couple of yards after contact.
It's like watching late-stage Marcus Allen. Dude wasn't looking to make anyone miss because he knew his joints weren't up for the task. But he'd still do a little shimmy, brace himself and drive through you for a little bit more yardage.
Kelce's gonna be good; great in fact - but he's gonna be on a bit of a snap count and he's not gonna be the guy he was from about 2017 through 2022.
Yep, he is just going to have to realize this day has arrived. We really need you at 100% in the playoffs. Take some pride hits and go get that 3peat. [Reply]
Originally Posted by frozenchief:
Good point. I made my post based upon something I read saying KC had $15M cap space before signing Brown (including Sneed tag) and now has about $8M, so I presumed the incentives were not likely to be reached. That was just speculation, though. I should have been more clear.
Nonetheless, getting Brown for $7M base is still impressive.
Its the same thing they did with JuJu coming off a down season so I bet most of the incentives are considered not likely to be reached because he had a down year last season in AZ.
51 receptions, 574 yards, and 4 TDs is the baseline.
I bet its something like 65 catches 750 yards and 6TDs or something like that. [Reply]
MVS on that list. After no other team signs him I'd bring him back on the cheap. Regardless of how we feel when he drops a pass defenses have to account for his speed. He knows the offense so as the 3rd or 4th WR option he'd be a fit. [Reply]