Andy Reid REVEALS Chiefs thoughts on NFL Draft 👀 | Kansas City Chiefs Chat NFL Draft

The Kansas City Chiefs are now several months into the postmortem of the 2025 season, a campaign in which they missed playoffs for the first time in 11 years.

Regardless of the subsequent highs and lows of free agency, though, the main factor in their quest to return to contention is the health of quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who is targeting a Week 1 return and on Wednesday posted a video of a throwing session roughly three months after having surgery to repair his ACL and LCL.

Speaking to NFL Senior National Columnist Judy Battista on Saturday from the Annual League Meeting in Phoenix, head coach Andy Reid acknowledged Mahomes’ progress. However, he refrained from committing to an exact recovery timeline for the two-time Most Valuable Player.

“He’s doing great,” Reid told Battista. “He spends a ton of time in the building. … He’s in there for seven hours a day. It’s showing, the progress. Now, to tell you a timeline? I mean, I know what he’s striving for. We’ll just see where it goes from there.”

Should Mahomes ultimately need more time, Kansas City traded a 2027 sixth-round pick to shore up its contingency plan, bringing in Justin Fields from the New York Jets.

Fields struggled with Gang Green in 2025, going 2-7 and finishing four different contests with fewer than 55 passing yards. On the 2024 Pittsburgh Steelers, a club that was more equipped to uplift a QB such as the Chiefs are, Fields went 4-2 as a starter despite experiencing similar stretches of ineffectiveness.

Whatever the Chiefs saw in Fields over the past couple seasons, it was enough to make him their backup plan.

“Well, we snuck out and got a good quarterback to back him up,” Reid said when asked if the team’s offseason planning has been for Mahomes to be ready Week 1. “So, if he doesn’t, you know, if he’s not able to make it for the beginning of the season, then we know we’ve got a legitimate backup there that can go win games for us.”

7 comments

  1. Nah, not bad wr's. No run game so defense drops into secondary. Then your coach throws 2 out of 3 plays. You guys are better than this podcast

  2. ACU: Andy..What are your thoughts on the draft ??
    Andy: Veach and the scouts select the players and we coach them
    ACU: Thanks Andy … Now let’s take a break to hear from our sponsors…Zardas

  7. The timeline is the 2027 season. When he's 100%. That's the truth. You don't rush this. It would be stupid. Also this draft is not going to get us the personnel we require to be competitive enough to go to the SB and win it so relax. Next year's draft is loaded with talent. That's where a top 10 or better pick will prove instrumental in getting the Chiefs to another SB win. I would rather protect Mahomes to the max this season and have another losing season and go into the 2027 offseason in great position for the upcoming draft. Get rid of all the overpaid players and load up on some young talent and quality free agents! That's my take i'm sticking with it.

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