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FORT WORTH, Texas — There may not be a better NFL landing spot for a rookie tight end than the back-to-back Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs given the opportunity to team up with three-time Super Bowl MVP quarterback Patrick Mahomes and nine-time Pro Bowl tight end Travis Kelce.
Rookie tight end Jared Wiley, Kansas City’s first of two fourth-round picks (131st overall) in the 2024 NFL Draft out of TCU, is fired up to join the defending Super Bowl champions. He is the first tight end the Chiefs have drafted since taking backup Noah Gray in the fifth round (162nd overall) of the 2021 NFL Draft. Gray enters the final season of his rookie deal in 2024.
“About a million things were going through my mind honestly,” Wiley said Tuesday when asked what he was thinking when the Chiefs drafted him. “What a place to be though. Kansas City is the powerhouse of the NFL. One of the top powerhouses in all the sports right now. To be able to go there and just learn their culture and be able to be in that winning environment, I think it’s going to be really fun for me.”
One of the top things on the rookie Horned Frog’s NFL to-do list is simple: take notes on everything Kelce does that has allowed him to lead tight ends all time in receiving yards per game (71.2), 1,000-yard seasons (seven) and 100-yard receiving games (37).
“It’s going be really fun. I can’t wait to just be a sponge and just be able to absorb as much information as I possibly can,” Wiley said. “Travis has done a really good job at doing what he does, and he’s done it for a really long time. Everybody talks about the plays that he makes and all that, but I don’t see a lot of people talking about the fact that he’s in like Year 12, Year 13 [2024 will be his 12th NFL season]. That’s a long time in the NFL. I’m really happy to learn the productivity that he has put into his career, but I’m also excited to learn about just how…
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Author : Garrett Podell
Publish date : 2024-05-07 22:36:55
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