Arrowheadlines: Travis Kelce only just makes top 50 of PFF list of best players

Kansas City has always been pretty active when it comes to trading with the tag (see: Frank Clark), and they’re putting the vibe out with Sneed. Leger Douzable and I talked about Sneed on the “Pick Six NFL” podcast on Tuesday and how it makes total sense for him to come back and try to win three titles in a row. Every player who has two with the Chiefs already should be doing it. Having said that … Sneed is 27, he was a fourth-round pick, he’s playing the best football of his career and he should bank a massive deal if he can. The Chiefs told him to seek a trade, and I expect his agents to find someone who will give him somewhere in the range of $40 million guaranteed on the low end. He was outstanding this year. The only impediment is the Chiefs seeing the salary cap bump and thinking they can run it back this year.

Xavier Worthy made headlines for his record-breaking 4.21-second 40-yard dash, but Brian Thomas Jr. ran only 0.12 seconds slower (4.33) while coming in at 6’3” and 209 pounds. Thomas registered a relative athletic score of 9.97 at the combine, the 10th-highest among receivers since 1987, per Kent Lee Platte of Pro Football Network.

Thomas’ game at LSU was built on speed. His testing times confirmed that he is an elite athlete with a prototypical frame for an outside deep threat. Thomas can also work from the slot, so he isn’t just a one-trick pony.

He does need to develop a more complex route tree. However, as B/R scout Derrik Klassen noted in his scouting report, “it’s hard to find players with his size, speed and instant burst.”