{"id":887945,"date":"2026-05-11T01:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/887945\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:42:17","slug":"pfhof-ambassador-shares-insane-stat-for-kansas-city-chiefs-rookie-wr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/887945\/","title":{"rendered":"PFHOF ambassador shares insane stat for Kansas City Chiefs&#8217; rookie WR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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> will rely heavily on their rookies from the 2026 NFL Draft next season, and with a few months left to prepare for the rigors of a new campaign, hype is already building behind one of the team&#8217;s fifth-round picks.<\/p>\n<p>Former Cincinnati Bearcats wide receiver Cyrus Allen was an underrated prospect in this year&#8217;s draft class, and had to wait until Day 3 of the Annual Player Selection Meeting to hear his name called.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Though it is unclear how Chiefs head coach Andy Reid will decide to use Allen in 2026, a key insight from Pro Football Hall of Fame International Ambassador <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DPNG7efif7C\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steve Flack;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;Steve Flack&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Steve Flack<\/a> may hint at the rookie&#8217;s potential utility in <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kansas City&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City<\/a>&#8216;s offense.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at what Flack had to say about Allen in a post to his official Twitter account:<\/p>\n<p>If Allen can continue putting up numbers like these during his early days in the NFL, Kansas City&#8217;s coaching staff will have no choice but to sideline one of the Chiefs&#8217; more established pass-catchers to give Allen playing time during his rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2026\/05\/10\/kansas-city-chiefs-rumors-pro-football-hall-of-fame-ambassador-shares-insane-stat-rookie-cyrus-allen\/90024305007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cyrus Allen: PFHOF ambassador shares insane stat for Chiefs&#039; rookie WR;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;Cyrus Allen&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Cyrus Allen: PFHOF ambassador shares insane stat for Chiefs&#8217; rookie WR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Chiefs will rely heavily on their rookies from the 2026 NFL Draft next season, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,105385,7,118,110,2438,2437,6,119704],"class_list":["post-887945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-chiefs","tag-cyrus-allen","tag-football","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascitychiefs","tag-nfl","tag-steve-flack"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116553406478408889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887945","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=887945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}