{"id":305990,"date":"2025-08-21T13:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/305990\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:31:17","slug":"kansas-city-chiefs-lb-leo-chenal-discusses-energy-going-into-the-preseason-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/305990\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs LB Leo Chenal discusses energy going into the preseason finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his press conference on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> linebacker Leo Chenal shared the defense&#8217;s energy level going into Friday&#8217;s preseason finale against the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s doing our best we can to kind of replicate and in, like in season, kind of week, Because we&#8217;re going to be ready no matter what in season, especially so just making sure all guys are doing the routine we&#8217;re practicing the way we want to practice.&#8221; said Chenal, &#8220;So it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s nothing like to like out of the box, out of the ordinary, just making sure we&#8217;re all on the same page. We can&#8217;t think of it as a preseason game; we&#8217;ve got to think of it as a game. Whenever we step on the field, we&#8217;re going to compete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Chenal and the first-team defense struggled in their opening drive against the Seattle Seahawks last week, causing concern about the unit&#8217;s energy level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, we&#8217;re competitors. So, you feel like, naturally, you come, and I don&#8217;t feel like anybody&#8217;s feeling pressured to bring energy,&#8221; said Chenal, &#8220;All of us kind of bring that naturally. I feel like, as a team, we do a good job of it. If we feel things are getting low, like a lot of guys, a lot of leaders step up and get you know, kind of pull everybody along, like no, let&#8217;s wake up here and let&#8217;s be going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In three regular-season campaigns in Kansas City, Chenal has logged 32 starts and tallied 160 combined tackles, five sacks, four passes defensed, and three forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2025\/08\/21\/kansas-city-chiefs-lb-leo-chenal-discusses-energy-going-into-the-preseason-finale\/85747727007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chiefs LB Leo Chenal discusses energy going into the preseason finale;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chiefs LB Leo Chenal discusses energy going into the preseason finale<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During his press conference on Wednesday, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Leo Chenal shared the defense&#8217;s energy level going&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[391,346,57804,7,118,110,2438,2437,2892,6,9791,2891,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-305990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chicago-bears","9":"tag-chiefs","10":"tag-energy-level","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-kansas-city","13":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","14":"tag-kansascity","15":"tag-kansascitychiefs","16":"tag-leo-chenal","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-preseason-game","19":"tag-press-conference","20":"tag-seattle-seahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115067008006305648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}