{"id":882072,"date":"2026-05-04T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/882072\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:00:30","slug":"chiefs-rookie-db-jadon-canady-has-many-ways-to-contribute-early-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/882072\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs\u2019 rookie DB Jadon Canady has many ways to contribute early on"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> opened Day 3 of last month\u2019s NFL Draft by selecting Oregon defensive back Jadon Canady in the fourth round. Canady is coming off a five-season college career that included stops at Tulane and Ole Miss before landing at Oregon for 2025.<\/p>\n

While multiple college stops can be met with scrutiny, Canady believes his experience adapting on the fly to new situations will be helpful as he transitions into the NFL. He spoke about what he learned from multiple transfers when he spoke on Saturday, on the second day of Kansas City\u2019s rookie minicamp.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s about the team part of it,\u201d Canady said. \u201cGuys will be here from Florida, California, or from New York \u2014 just meeting people from all over the area and seeing how guys talk and react to certain things. Secondly, just learning defenses. I played different things at Ole Miss from Oregon. Me learning things vs. the guy who has only been at one school will teach me a lot more than guys who have only been at one school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those stops have included stints as an outside cornerback early on and a hybrid role between nickelback and safety within a stout Oregon defense. Canady will defer to head coach Andy Reid and defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo to decide where he plays in Kansas City.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, Coach Spags sees it or Coach Reid,\u201d remarked Canady. \u201cI\u2019m good at corner, free [safety] or big nickel. I\u2019m just seeing how Coach Spags and Coach Reid are going to use me this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outside of the first two rounds, most rookie defensive backs make their first NFL mark on special teams. Canady also brings skills that assistant head coach and special teams coordinator Dave Toub will covet in Kansas City.<\/p>\n

Expect to see Canady on the field for punting and kickoff situations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played best at gunner or holdup,\u201d he recalled, \u201cbut I also played [kickoff return] and kickoff if need be,\u201d said Canady, \u201cJust my ability to hold up as a gunner or to win at the line of scrimmage as a receiver is pretty elite.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canady\u2019s last stop at Oregon saw him play under head coach Dan Lanning, a Kansas City native and former linebacker at William Jewell College. Lanning did not discuss the Chiefs with Canady until after the selection was made, but he suspects the college coach had been in contact with his now professional coaches.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really wasn\u2019t until after the draft that he told me,\u201d Canady revealed. \u201cObviously, pre-draft, he had talks with Coach Reid or Coach Spags. After I got the call, he was the first guy saying how happy he was for me playing for his home team. He\u2019s thrilled, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Chiefs opened Day 3 of last month\u2019s NFL Draft by selecting Oregon defensive back Jadon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,922,1193,6],"class_list":["post-882072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-football","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-roster","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116515492585536097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882072","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=882072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}