It’s always hard to keep a Super Bowl-winning team completely intact. The Chiefs know this well, winning championships to end the 2019 and ’22 seasons.
Among those impactful losses this offseason, after Kansas City captured Super Bowl LVII, is offensive tackle Orlando Brown Jr. The close friend of Patrick Mahomes, who spent the last two seasons protecting the star quarterback, left in free agency and signed with the Bengals, one of the Chiefs’ AFC rivals in recent seasons.
When asked about Brown’s departure, Mahomes admitted that it was “tough,” but confirmed that the two remain friends off the field even though he’ll be protecting Joe Burrow in 2023.