{"id":859713,"date":"2026-04-07T21:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859713\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:30:19","slug":"in-a-twist-former-bills-first-round-cb-ends-up-with-the-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859713\/","title":{"rendered":"In a twist, former Bills&#8217; first-round CB ends up with the Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a twist of fate for former <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Buffalo Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Buffalo Bills&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Buffalo Bills<\/a> cornerback Kaiir Elam.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Elam <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2026\/04\/02\/kansas-city-chiefs-sign-free-agent-cornerback-kaiir-elam\/89443328007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:signed a deal;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;signed a deal&quot;}\" class=\"link \">signed a deal<\/a> in free agency with the <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\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kansas City Chiefs&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>. Full contract turns have yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Elam has not played on the Bills since 2024. However, because it&#8217;s the Chiefs, it&#8217;s worth mentioning Buffalo because of when Elam was drafted by the Bills in 2022 (and because of the ongoing Bills-Chiefs rivalry).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Elam was taken No. 23 overall by Buffalo. At the time, the Bills were heavily connected to cornerback Trent McDuffie ahead of the 2022 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Where did McDuffie get picked? No. 21 to Kansas City&#8230; and in landing with the Chiefs, Elam replaces McDuffie. The Chiefs lost McDuffie in free agency to the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an entire twist of fate for Elam dating back to the 2022 NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bills Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/billswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bills\/2026\/04\/07\/kaiir-elam-former-bills-first-round-cb-ends-up-with-the-chiefs\/89506842007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:In a twist, former Bills&#039; first-round CB ends up with the Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;In a twist, former Bills&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">In a twist, former Bills&#8217; first-round CB ends up with the Chiefs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There has been a twist of fate for former Buffalo Bills cornerback Kaiir Elam. Last week, Elam signed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,7,8580,118,110,58,6,3025,4223],"class_list":{"0":"post-859713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-kaiir-elam","14":"tag-kansas-city","15":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","16":"tag-los-angeles-rams","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-the-bills","19":"tag-trent-mcduffie"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116365559344665822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859713","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=859713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}