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Be interesting to see where Jones lines up and in what situations.

Yes Bolton for sure.

Which player is your #1 focus?

#1 Im very interested in how the line backers play to include the back ups? #2 How does Niang look?

Somehow I missed the fact he also played left tackle in college.

Get Up host Mike Greenberg chipped in. “Louis, and you know this well, Trey Smith once upon a time was the No. 1 high school football player in America,” Greenberg said. “There were health questions involving him that forced him to fall all the way to sixth — or the sixth-round, I should say — in the draft. He’s a player whose talent is rated well above that.” Smith finished his high school cycle as the No. 4 offensive tackle and No. 14 overall prospect in the 247Sports Composite, a five-star player. And he excelled at Tennessee, making second-team All-SEC as a true freshman, starting games at right guard, then left tackle. He returned to start seven straight games at left tackle as a sophomore before the Tennessee medical staff discovered blood clots in his lungs. He missed the rest of that season, and while those blood clots would eventually cause Smith to slide to the sixth round — he was projected as a late-first, early-second-round type of talent — they didn’t stop Smith from playing the next two years and reaching first-team All-SEC status in both seasons.

Interesting. I agree with this approach! Justin Herbert will not play during the preseason. New coach Brandon Staley confirmed Thursday that the majority of his starters will not see the field this exhibition season. That is in keeping with the philosophy of Staley's former boss Sean McVay. “Our practices are going to be a lot more like games than these preseason games,” Staley said. “The environment that we create on our practice field is where the real action is in the preseason.” Herbert has a few new faces to build chemistry with, but Staley is not incorrect that the practice field might be the best forum for that. This has no bearing on Herbert's ADP, which is typically in the QB7-9 range

Jody Fortson with a sick bobble catch across the middle during full team drills. Pass from Chad Henne behind Fortson, who reached back to tip the ball and keep it alive. Fortson then snagged it before falling to the ground.

The National Football League has made it official. In a memo it sent to its clubs this week, the league said that the modified injured reserve rules that were put in place for the 2020 season will continue in 2021. Under the modified rules, teams may return an unlimited number of players from their Reserve/Injured lists, provided that each returning player: was on the team’s initial 53-man roster on September 1 has been on the Reserve/Injured list for a minimum of three games or postseason bye weeks is returned to the active roster within 21 days of being designated for a return to practice

Herbie Teope @HerbieTeope · Aug 12, 2021 Replying to @HerbieTeope LB Willie Gay Jr., who has been in concussion protocol, is dressed in full pads and back to work. We’ll see how much he does. DE Alex Okafor (hamstring) also back in pads. Nate Taylor @ByNateTaylor In 1-on-1 drills, Ben Niemann overwhelmed Clyde Edwards-Helaire in 2 repetitions. Eric Bieniemy wasn’t pleased. Herbie Teope @HerbieTeope Chiefs second-year CB BoPete Keyes heading up the hill with two trainers. They spent a few minutes in the medical tent looking at his left hand before taking him up the hill.

Herbie Teope @HerbieTeope · Aug 12, 2021 Replying to @HerbieTeope LB Willie Gay Jr., who has been in concussion protocol, is dressed in full pads and back to work. We’ll see how much he does. DE Alex Okafor (hamstring) also back in pads.

I read that because he restructured in 2020 all of his contract is guaranteed?

I have not SEEN much of KC training camp. Read some limited info. Still 5 weeks from the start of the season. Ill reserve JUDGEMENT.

NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reports Chiefs OG Laurent Duvernay-Tardif will be out 4-6 weeks with a broken bone in his hand. Rapoport added that Duvernay-Tardif's injury won't require surgery and that he still has a chance to be ready for Week 1. The veteran guard opted out of the 2020 season to serve as a frontline worker during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pro Football Focus graded him as an above-average pass blocker in 2019 but the Chiefs listed him as a second-stringer in their first unofficial depth chart. Trey Smith, a sixth-round rookie from Tennessee, was listed as the starter at right guard. With Duvernay-Tardif likely out for the rest of training camp, Smith should hold onto the starting role heading into Week 1.

NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reports Chiefs OG Laurent Duvernay-Tardif will be out 4-6 weeks with a broken bone in his hand. Rapoport added that Duvernay-Tardif's injury won't require surgery and that he still has a chance to be ready for Week 1. The veteran guard opted out of the 2020 season to serve as a frontline worker during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pro Football Focus graded him as an above-average pass blocker in 2019 but the Chiefs listed him as a second-stringer in their first unofficial depth chart. Trey Smith, a sixth-round rookie from Tennessee, was listed as the starter at right guard. With Duvernay-Tardif likely out for the rest of training camp, Smith should hold onto the starting role heading into Week 1.

Defensive lineman Khalen Saunders has been noticeably better this camp, and he is beginning to be rewarded with first-team reps here and there. A positive development for Saunders — who had somewhat of a throwaway year in 2020. Spagnuolo on Saunders after practice: “It’ll be good to get him up and going again... Khalen sticks out — one, because he dealt with the injury. You want to see if those guys are back... (Defensive line coach) Brendan Daly mentioned this the other day in our staff meeting that he has stacked a bunch of days together where he’s been really good. Early on, it was the drill work that looked really good, but it wasn’t transferring to some of our team work here, but that seems to be coming — and hopefully, that will happen as we go, and it will be good to get in a game where we hit somebody for real.”

Herbie Teope @HerbieTeope Willie Gay Jr. (concussion protocol), Kyle Long (knee), Evan Baylis (ankle), Mike Remmers (back), Laurent Duvernay-Tardif (hand), Alex Okafor (hamstring), Malik Herring (knee) not working. Today marks the ninth straight practice Remmers isn’t working.

Pete Sweeney @pgsween Nick Allegretti getting the second-team center work today. Austin Blythe at LG. #Chiefs

Matt McMullen @KCChiefs_Matt It’s another “10-10-10” practice at #ChiefsCamp today. Patrick Mahomes just found Clyde Edwards-Helaire up the seam for a TD on the first snap of the offensive period.

That was me being sarcastic.

Quote of the day Offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy on what message he had for the offensive line on Monday: “Well, I don’t know if I can say that message right now.”

Training camp body with guys nicked up. Also puts him on will-call should, lets hope not, the need arises.

Left tackle Orlando Brown Jr. has continued to look poor in one-on-ones, but he is a different offensive lineman in 11-on-11. It seems like most Chiefs pass rushers choose to speed-rush Brown in the one-on-one drill, and they usually find success. Then he manages to stonewall defenders in scrimmage work. The offensive linemen generally had a better time in one-on-one work Monday — especially right guard Trey Smith, who has just put together a phenomenal camp.

On the other side of the coin, rookie wideout Cornell Powell has been disappointing in his first training camp. Bieniemy was asked about Powell’s progress during his presser: “Cornell is a rookie, and he’s learning. First of all, he’s a beautiful soul, he’s a great kid. He has a tremendous amount of talent in front of him, and the thing that I appreciate about those guys is that they support one another. So, if he does something wrong, they’re on him, ‘Hey man, listen, pick your head up and let’s go line up the next play.’ The best thing about him is that he understands the importance of coming to work every single day, and that’s what I appreciate about him. Now, is he quite where we want him to be? No. Is he working in that direction? Yes, he is, and I appreciate his work ethic each and every day.”