The back-to-back Super Bowl champs were winding down a challenging two-week start to training camp with a spirited Wednesday practice ahead of the preseason opener. Here’s what I saw through my morning with the Kansas City Chiefs in St. Joseph, Mo. …
• The offense is going to look a lot different. Patrick Mahomes has spent the summer trying to hone his unit’s ability to bring the deep ball back in a very big way, and for good reason. Free-agent pickup Marquise “Hollywood” Brown and first-rounder Xavier Worthy add that element back into what had become a bigger, more physical, but slower receiver group post-Tyreek Hill. And, ideally, Worthy and Brown will create space for guys such as Travis Kelce and Rashee Rice (who showed up to camp in tremendous shape after a tumultuous offseason) to make big plays after the catch underneath, in a Randy Moss–Wes Welker kind of way.
