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Chiefs make \u2018aggressive\u2019 2026 scheduling request with NFL: Kansas City pushing hard to play in these two games | CBS Sports<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019d love to play on Christmas,\u201d Donovan said,\u00a0via ESPN. \u201cWe respect that the league wants to spread it around. We get it. Right now, we expect to be in a lot of prime-time games. We\u2019ve made it pretty clear that our preference is to play at home on Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n This is one request that the Chiefs probably have a good chance of getting, especially with Christmas falling on a Friday this year. We already know there will be three games on Dec. 25 this year, which means that the NFL will need six teams to fill the Christmas schedule. With the holiday falling on a Friday, some teams might he hesitant to volunteer for a game due to the short week, so this could be a spot where the NFL gives the Chiefs what they want.<\/p>\n Last year, the Chiefs actually asked the league if they could play on Christmas every year, but\u00a0the NFL shot that idea down. In the short term, though, the Chiefs make sense. This could be\u00a0Travis Kelce\u2019s\u00a0final season and featuring him in a Christmas game with his new wife Taylor Swift in attendance \u2014 they\u2019re expected to be married this summer \u2014 seems like something the NFL would give some serious consideration to.<\/p>\n Kansas City Chiefs are showing interest in 2026 NFL Draft prospect who has the entire league buzzing after NFL\u2019s HBCU showcase | A to Z Sports<\/a><\/p>\n Uar Bernard participated in the annual HBCU showcase as part of the NFL\u2019s International Player Pathway Program. He grew up in a village in Abuja, Nigeria, and up until about 11 weeks ago, he\u2019d never played or participated in any football activities. The reason that he\u2019s catching storm now with NFL clubs is that he put up a historic testing performance at the HBCU showcase.<\/p>\n At 6-foot-4.5 and 306 pounds with nearly 36-inch arms, Bernard ran a 4.63s 40-yard dash, a 39-inch vertical (98th percentile), and a 130-inch broad jump (reports on this vary, but it\u2019d be a record for a defensive tackle), and 31 repetitions of 225 on the bench. The guy also has just 6% body fat, which might as well be nothing. While he didn\u2019t run any agility drills, the performance was head-turning enough for NFL clubs.<\/p>\n 2026 NFL mock draft with all trades: Deals for Round 1 picks | ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n 9. Kansas City Chiefs<\/p>\n Chiefs get: 1-18, 3-97, Edge Jonathan Greenard We\u2019ve heard that picking ninth gives the Chiefs a rare chance to address critical positions on their roster with a premium pick, and that\u2019s true. What if they do that in a relatively unconventional way?\u00a0George Karlaftis\u00a0has settled in as a solid starter, and\u00a0Chris Jones\u2019 impact hasn\u2019t dipped as much as his statistical production suggests, but the Chiefs would love to come out of this draft with an impact edge rusher. They might be just a tad too low to land that player at No. 9 if the board goes as expected.<\/p>\n One other way to address that need would be to add a star in Greenard, who racked up 12 sacks and 22 knockdowns with the Vikings in 2024 before injuries wrecked his 2025 campaign. Greenard will turn 29 in May, so he should still have a couple of years of impactful pass rushing before the Chiefs would need to worry about moving on. Greenard has two years and $37.9 million remaining on his deal, and though Brett Veach & Co. would have to address that contract with a meaningful raise, Greenard could still be an easily justifiable addition for the Chiefs, given their perennial role as Super Bowl contenders.<\/p>\n How much should the Chiefs be willing to give up for Dexter Lawrence? | Arrowhead Addict<\/a><\/p>\n In all reality, the Chiefs could offer up the second of their two first-round picks thanks to\u00a0the Trent McDuffie trade, which gave Veach pick #29 to do with as he pleases. But that likely wouldn\u2019t satisfy the Giants\u2019 needs, considering they need a large haul of picks at the draft in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n One of those needs they have is an offensive lineman, of which the Chiefs have been paying and hoarding for a few years now. Somebody as young and full of potential as 23-year-old Kingsley Suamataia or even Wanya Morris, who has now had quite a few games under his belt at multiple positions.<\/p>\n Perhaps the Chiefs\u2019 second first-round pick (#29), paired with an offensive lineman that is not named Creed, Josh, or Trey, could get it? That could do the trick, but if not, it would be in Veach\u2019s best interest to ask which other pick in 2026 the Giants might want that the Chiefs might be able to let go of.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Around the NFL<\/p>\n Giants DT Dexter Lawrence requests trade, sources say | ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n Lawrence and the Giants have been through two offseasons attempting to negotiate a contract reflecting his value to the team over the past three years, but there has not been any progress, per sources.<\/p>\n Lawrence has two years remaining on his deal and is scheduled to make $20 million this upcoming season.<\/p>\n Initially there had been optimism that, with changes in the organization, discussions could move forward. But now that they haven\u2019t, new Giants head coach John Harbaugh will open his team\u2019s offseason program this week without one of his best players.<\/p>\n \u201cHow important is he? Really important,\u201d Harbaugh said about Lawrence in February. \u201cHe\u2019s super, super important. He\u2019s a cornerstone football player \u2014 not really a cornerstone, more like the middle stone. He\u2019s right in the middle. He\u2019s a very big stone, and he\u2019s a very active, athletic one.\u201d<\/p>\n Lavonte David blames injuries for Baker Mayfield\u2019s struggles in 2025 | NFL.com<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m telling you, Baker was going through a lot,\u201d David said. \u201cBaker had a lot of injuries that you didn\u2019t expect a quarterback to play through. He had the oblique injury, he had the shoulder injury, he had a lot of things \u2014 like ankle injury, knee injury \u2014 he had a lot of stuff he was going through. The season\u2019s over now, I can talk about it, but he had a lot of stuff that he was going through and he was really trying to push and really trying to be the player that we needed him to be. To be honest, we was doing his thing for the most part.\u201d<\/p>\n Mayfield got off to a sensational start to his 2025 season, with his name being bandied around as an MVP candidate as he led the Bucs to several stirring wins, including tossing 379 yards and two touchdowns on 29-of-33 passing against the eventual Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks in a Week 5 win. However, after a four-sack loss against Detroit in Week 7, Mayfield never looked right, and injuries began to mount for the Bucs.<\/p>\n The 30-year-old sat out the second half of a blowout loss to the Los Angeles Rams in Week 12 after hurting his non-throwing shoulder, but threw every other pass in 2025 for the Bucs, despite battling through injuries.<\/p>\n
Vikings get: 1-9, Edge Felix Anudike-Uzomah<\/p>\n