{"id":345282,"date":"2025-09-06T03:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/345282\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T03:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T03:08:11","slug":"why-patriots-let-tyquan-thornton-leave-for-the-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/345282\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Patriots let Tyquan Thornton leave for the Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/new-england-patriots\/news\/why-patriots-let-tyquan-thornton-leave-chiefs\/a62b0c8e45032dfaaddfc6cf?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Why Patriots let Tyquan Thornton leave for the Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Why Patriots let Tyquan Thornton leave for the Chiefs<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tyquan Thornton never became the player he was meant to be with the New England Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>But now he&#8217;s gotten a second chance with the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>And with K.C.&#8217;s receiving corps dealing with injuries and suspensions, Thornton could become extra important.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/news\/browns-shedeur-sanders-trade-fans-rookie-qb\/68795f263fd9acc39ebce7a3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Browns&#039; trade for Shedeur Sanders gives fans a reason to keep believing;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Browns&#8217; trade for Shedeur Sanders gives fans a reason to keep believing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He made a big play against the Chargers in his Chiefs debut, too:<\/p>\n<p>Why did the Patriots let Tyquan Thornton leave for the Chiefs?<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots had simply decided Tyquan Thornton was a bust.<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t want to keep him. They wanted to try out some new wide receivers.<\/p>\n<p>The Pats drafted Thornton in the second round (No. 50 overall) in the 2022 NFL Draft, and he lasted three seasons there.<\/p>\n<p>His best year was as a rookie, when he had 22 catches for 247 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, he declined to 13 catches for 91 yards.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/ncaa-football\/colorado\/news\/did-shilo-sanders-sign-new-team-nfl-future-colorado-buffaloes-star\/a2d49dc2f89372d87f77bc6b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The latest on Shilo Sanders&#039; chances to stick in the NFL;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The latest on Shilo Sanders&#8217; chances to stick in the NFL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And last season, Thornton had just four catches for 47 yards.<\/p>\n<p>The Pats signed Stefon Diggs, drafted Kyle Williams and found an undrafted gem in Efton Chism for the 2025 season. That made Thornton surplus to proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs will happily take the talented wideout for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NFL NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Patriots let Tyquan Thornton leave for the Chiefs originally appeared on The Sporting News Tyquan Thornton never&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,110,1056,859,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,17,2715,531,24175],"class_list":{"0":"post-345282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","10":"tag-kyle-williams","11":"tag-mahomes","12":"tag-new-england","13":"tag-new-england-patriots","14":"tag-newengland","15":"tag-newenglandpatriots","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-patriots","18":"tag-shedeur-sanders","19":"tag-shilo-sanders","20":"tag-stefon-diggs","21":"tag-tyquan-thornton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115155154194788866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345282","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=345282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}