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Joe Thuney, Bears Agree to New Contract Reportedly Worth $51M After Trade from Chiefs | Bleacher Report
NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport confirmed the news, adding that the deal is worth $17.5 million per year with $33.5 million guaranteed. When taking into account his 2025 salary, Thuney is set to make $51 million over the next three seasons in Chicago.
The Bears acquired the 32-year-old Thuney in a trade with the Kansas City Chiefs in March, landing him in exchange for a 2026 fourth-round draft pick.
Who could dethrone Super Bowl champion Eagles? Chiefs, Bills, Ravens headline top six contenders | NFL.com
There’s a lot to like about Kansas City, including the fact that burgeoning star wide receiver Rashee Rice returns from injury and All-Pro defensive tackle Chris Jones remains one of the most disruptive interior players in football. However, the Chiefs are not going to win another championship unless that O-line improves. Everything this team aspires to revolves around that.
Second-year NFL players poised for breakout seasons: Chiefs’ Xavier Worthy , Cowboys’ Tyler Guyton headline | CBS Sports
Enter wide receiver Xavier Worthy, the 28th overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft . Worthy ‘s 638 yards receiving were the second-most by a Chief in 2024 behind Kelce ‘s 823, but they were only the fifth-most among the first-round receivers selected in 2024. He’ll evolve into Mahomes’ go-to guy in 2025, which will help catapult the speedster to stardom.
Every NFL team’s top three players entering the 2025 season | Pro Football Focus
QB PATRICK MAHOMES
DI CHRIS JONES
CB TRENT McDUFFIE
Mahomes continues to rank among the best in the NFL, with only Joe Burrow posting a higher cumulative (10.72) and per-season average (3.75) WAR over the past three years. Jones earned a 91.5 pass-rush grade in 2024, his third consecutive elite season and sixth in the last seven years. McDuffie finished second among all cornerbacks in WAR behind only Patrick Surtain II, with his lowest individual grade — 79.2 in coverage — still among the best for any corner with significant snaps.
The Chiefs’ heel era may be ending as a subtle face turn takes shape | Arrowhead Addict
The pivot began, in my opinion, where all dramatic events in sports history begin: on TikTok. A trend recently began comparing Patrick Mahomes’ voice to the lead vocals on the party track from New York-based rapper V.I.C., “The Wobble.” Now, even Mahomes has made jabs at his own vocal pattern, but the accuracy made the comparison undeniable. Some have even connected the chorus’s vocalization to that of Travis Kelce’s, but that is a stretch too far for some to make.
Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes Posts Heartfelt Reaction to Soccer Player’s Shocking Death at 3 | Newsweek
The shocking death of soccer star Gadi Kinda touched Patrick Mahomes. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback posted a heartfelt tribute Tuesday to the midfielder who spent four seasons with MLS’s Sporting Kansas City, writing on Twitter/X, “Praying for his family and friends! ”
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NFL approves players in ‘28 Games, but hurdles remain | ESPN
“Flag football players may be upset at me for this, but yes, I would absolutely love it,” [Aaron] Jones said. “Every other sport gets an opportunity to win a gold medal, and if you’re not serving your country in the military, I feel like that’s the other highest honor that you can represent your country in.”
Jones and many of the key stakeholders needed to make this a reality have already made their positions clear on the idea of NFL players participating in the Olympic debut of flag football.
NFL owners to decide fate of ‘tush push’ | NBC Sports
Since 2022, the Eagles have converted on reportedly 90% of short-yardage situations by modifying the typical quarterback sneak by stationing multiple teammates behind quarterback Jalen Hurts to push him forward at the snap. While the so-called tush push is not used exclusively by the Eagles, it was integral to their winning last season’s Super Bowl.
Green Bay Packers legend Charles Woodson becomes minority owner of the Cleveland Browns | Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel
Charles Woodson, an Ohio native and Pro Football Hall of Famer who became a staple of the Packers’ run to the Super Bowl after the 2010 season, has signed on as a limited partner with the Haslam Sports Group, which also owns a significant ownership stake in the Milwaukee Bucks alongside co-owner Wes Edens.
Roger Goodell: NFL playing 16 regular-season international games a year is “very near” | NBC Sports
A 16-game slate of international games could mean playing international games almost every week of the season, and possibly all 32 teams playing eight home games, eight road games and one international game. An expanding international schedule could also motivate the NFL to continue its push to an 18-game regular season, which would give the league a larger inventory of games to move overseas.
Raiders OC wants Ashton Jeanty to ditch ‘Michael Myers’ stance | ESPN
Since high school, Jeanty has stood straight up with his hands at his side in the backfield before the snap, a stance that some have compared to Michael Myers, the infamous killer from the “Halloween” horror movies.
It certainly hasn’t hampered him on the field. He’s coming off a Heisman Trophy runner-up season for Boise State in which he rushed for 2,601 yards, the second most in a season in FBS history, trailing only Barry Sanders, who rushed for 2,628 yards for Oklahoma State in 1988.
Titans QBs Ward, Levis splitting reps right now, Callahan says | ESPN
“It will change probably a little bit when we get to the next phase of OTAs and there’s some 7-on-7,” Callahan said Tuesday.
Having the incumbent starter and the top pick in the same quarterback room could create a contentious situation. But so far that hasn’t been an issue
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The Chiefs’ 2025 preseason schedule is complete
The preseason Week 2 game against the Seattle Seahawks, which will be played on Lumen Field in Seattle on Friday, August 15, will kick off at 9 p.m. Arrowhead Time. This is the latest start for a Chiefs game in recent memory.
