The Kansas City Chiefs' offensive line woes were laid bare for all to see in the Super Bowl, but they started well before that. With Wanya Morris and rookie Kingsley Suamataia tasked with protecting Patrick Mahomes' blindside, neither did a good enough job.
ESPN pointed out a former Tennessee Vols offensive lineman this week as a player in the NFL who could benefit from a change of scenery. Former Vols and
Already carrying three eight-figure-per-year contracts along their offensive front, the Chiefs will have a difficult time re-signing Trey Smith. The right guard may well, depending on the franchise tag statuses of Tee Higgins and Sam Darnold, secure the top AAV among free agents this year.
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The Kansas City Chiefs' biggest weakness in 2024 has been the play of their offensive tackles. They have had a revolving door at left tackle, with a whopping four different players starting for them at the position this season.
With an established top tier and some young options revealing themselves last season, here is a look at where clubs' QB depth charts stand. Contracts and long-term outlooks do not factor in here; these rankings apply only to 2025 on-field capabilities.
For one of the first times all season, the right tackle spot was in a more precarious position than left tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs. In the second half of Week 16's win over the Houston Texans, starter Jawaan Taylor went down with a knee injury and missed the rest of the contest.
Just like it has for most of the 2024-25 campaign, the Kansas City Chiefs' unstable left tackle situation was a weak point in Week 13. The reigning Super Bowl champs struggled to put away the Las Vegas Raiders on Black Friday, partially due to the poor play of second-year man Wanya Morris.
The Kansas City Chiefs had to do something. Everyone at Arrowhead knew it, too. The play at left tackle has been frustrating over the last couple of weeks in particular and a consistent issue all season for the Chiefs, who are 11-1 despite such concerns and myriad injuries.
At one point during the Kansas City Chiefs' Week 13 win against the Las Vegas Raiders, Amazon's Sam Schwartzstein got on the horn for Amazon's Prime Vision broadcast and delivered a blunt message about the K.C.'s pass protection.
Like he always does, Mahomes put the blame on himself and refused to throw Morris under the bus.
The Kansas City Chiefs are adding a Pro Bowl player to their roster a week after they made a second-round pick a healthy scratch before their 30-21 loss to the Buffalo Bills in Week 11.
Most weeks, a team's list of inactive players is relatively nondescript, as a given squad will usually have a similar crew who don't get a chance to suit up on game day, barring injury.
Kansas City Chiefs left tackle Wanya Morris has been dealing with a bone bruise in his right knee since training camp. The injury played a role in Morris losing the starting left tackle job to rookie Kingsley Suamataia before the regular season.
Outside of Arrowhead Stadium, it's impossible for anyone to officially say whether or not the Kansas City Chiefs are looking at adding some help at the offensive tackle position, but all of the signs are there.
As has been the theme in several of their games this season, the Kansas City Chiefs brought things down to the wire in Week 10 but found a way to win anyway.
In a season already beleaguered by injuries, the Kansas City Chiefs have suffered another cause for concern on Sunday against the Denver Broncos. Early in the second quarter of Sunday's divisional showdown, starting left tackle Wanya Morris exited the game after suffering an apparent right leg injury.
The Kansas City Chiefs deserve to take the rest of the day and celebrate. With their seventh win in seven games, they're already in rare company as the only unbeaten team in the National Football League, and now they're chasing some all-time franchise records in terms of consecutive victories and best starts to a season.
The Kansas City Chiefs have dealt with quite a bit of uncertainty in the first quarter of the season at the left tackle spot on the offensive line. After watching Wanya Morris go down with a first-quarter injury, they'll face further questions going forward.
Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Wanya Morris shouted out the Tennessee Vols and the Oklahoma Sooners during his intro on NBC's Sunday Night Football in Week 3. Morris spent the first two season of his collegiate career at Tennessee before transferring to Oklahoma, where he spent his final two seasons.
The Kansas City Chiefs are in a dogfight with their hated rival, the Cincinnati Bengals, but the Chiefs took the lead in the third quarter in the funniest way.
The Kansas City Chiefs are crossing their fingers at training camp in St. Joseph on Wednesday after watching offensive tackle Wanya Morris suffer what looked like a knee injury in practice.
Following their Super Bowl LVIII win over the San Francisco 49ers, the Kansas City Chiefs don't have a ton of position battles to watch entering training camp.
It’s been an eventful offseason for the Kansas City Chiefs, to say the very least.
The NFL will allow the legal process to take its course before ultimately coming to a decision on league punishment.
The Kansas City Chiefs have a competition brewing at left tackle.
The Kansas City Chiefs have one of the better offensive lines in the NFL. That is especially true, when all three interior offensive linemen are healthy, which includes Joe Thuney, Creed Humphrey and Trey Smith.
The Kansas City Chiefs have a monumental, key game against the Buffalo Bills this Sunday. We know that Kansas City’s offense has battled inconsistency all season long.
Chiefs rookie left tackle Wanya Morris worked with the first-team offense on Wednesday. He's in line to start for Sunday when the Buffalo Bills (6-6) come to Kansas City after a bye last week.
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