{"id":887018,"date":"2026-05-10T00:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/887018\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T00:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:27:22","slug":"expert-compares-rising-chiefs-udfa-wr-to-lions-legend-calvin-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/887018\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert compares rising Chiefs UDFA WR to Lions legend Calvin Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> may have found a true diamond in the rough by signing former Cincinnati Bearcats wide receiver Jeff Caldwell as a free agent after the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

One metric that modern draftniks use to evaluate a player’s athletic profile is “Raw Athletic Score,” which combines several variables to determine a score on a 0-10 scale.<\/p>\n

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Given Caldwell’s outstanding athleticism, it should come as no surprise that the Cincinnati standout scored a perfect 10.0 on the RAS scale, garnering comparisons to Detroit Lions<\/a> legend Calvin Johnson, who also achieved a perfect mark and shares some striking similarities to Kansas City’s rookie on paper.<\/p>\n

Caldwell was never considered to be a top pass-catcher in his class, but he possesses rare athletic traits that made him stand out in pre-draft testing.<\/p>\n

No single metric can determine a prospect’s future, but if Caldwell’s 10.0 RAS is any indication, Kansas City may have found its next breakout star without spending a draft pick.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: Chiefs rumors: UDFA WR earns comparison to Lions legend Calvin Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Chiefs may have found a true diamond in the rough by signing former Cincinnati Bearcats…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[4955,19679,346,4707,113,7,103316,118,110,2438,2437,6],"class_list":["post-887018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-2026-nfl-draft","tag-calvin-johnson","tag-chiefs","tag-cincinnati-bearcats","tag-detroit-lions","tag-football","tag-jeff-caldwell","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascitychiefs","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116547449265358158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887018","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=887018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}