#11 Jalen Royals

Depth Chart Projection: April 10th (Predraft) — **OFFENSE (Italic Signifies Free Agent Signing)** |Position|Starter|2nd String|3rd String|4th String| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |**QB**|Patrick Mahomes II|*Justin Fields*|Chris Oladoken|*Jake Haener*| |**RB**|*Kenneth Walker III*|Brashard Smith|*Emari Demarcado*|Shunderrick Powell| |**LT**|Josh Simmons|Jaylon Moore|Esa Pole|Ehtan Driskell| |**LG**|Kingsley Suamataia|C.J. Hanson||| |**C**|Creed Humphrey|Hunter Nourzad||| |**RG**|Trey Smith|Mike Caliendo||| |**RT**|Jaylon Moore|Wanya Morris|Godrick Chukwu

Veach Skill Position Draft History — Not breaking any news here but I think it’s important to lay it out in this format. 2019: Mecole Hardman (56), Darwin Thompson (214) 2020: Clyde Edwards-Helaire (32) 2021: Noah Gray (162), Cornell Powell (181) 2022: Skyy Moore (54), Isaih Pacheco (251) 2023: Rashee Rice (55) 2024: Xavier Worthy (28), Jared Wiley (131) 2025: Jalen Royals (133), Brashard Smith (228) Having a hard time coming up with more than a handful of teams that have done a worse job drafting skill positions in this ti

NFL rookie report cards: Grading and ranking every team's 2025 draft class (Chiefs 20th) — We were 20th. Grade: B- Draft picks: Round 1 (No. 32): OT Josh Simmons | 8 games/starts Round 2 (No. 63): DT Omarr Norman-Lott | 5 games/1 start Round 3 (No. 66): Edge Ashton Gillotte | 17 games/2 starts Round 3 (No. 85): CB Nohl Williams | 17 games/5 starts Round 4 (No. 133): WR Jalen Royals | 7 games/2 starts Round 5 (No. 156): LB Jeffrey Bassa | 17 games/0 starts Round 7 (No. 228): RB Brashard Smith | 17 games/1 start Notable free-

An Analysis of Jalens (and variations thereof) in the NFL — As I'm sure most football fans have noticed, over the past few years there's been a dramatic increase in the number of Jalens playing in the NFL. I, like any other reasonable fan, decided to determine A) who has the most Jalens? and B) if the number of Jalens on a team affected their likelihood of winning. So, to start, I counted all of the Jalens on each team's active roster in the NFL. There are 46 current Jalens including: 20 Jalens, 7 Jaylens, 6 Jaylons, 4 Jaylins, 2 Jalins and 2 Jalyns, a

Chiefs Season and Offseason Analysis — And just like that, we're scheduling trips to Cancun. https://preview.redd.it/sqrcw19n1h7g1.jpg?width=791&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77caee699eaa3d8abb4647239ac56e8f6ee324b5 I'm going to go over the various weaknesses in the roster and coaching staff, as well as addressing cap issues and potential moves for next year, including how likely they are given who our decision makers are. # Let's start with the offense: **QB:** ***Patrick Mahomes*** is the best quarterback in the league, full stop.

How the Chiefs should evaluate the remainder of this season — With the Chiefs all but mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, here’s a few adjustments that can be made for the remainder of the season that I think are critical for evaluating this team going into 2026: - Esa Pole needs starting reps at RT going forward: if he can prove he’s capable of handling RT at an above average level, it guarantees Jawaan Taylor AND Jaylon Moore will be released saving a ton of cap space. Our starting 5 Oline would be set under contract for the foreseeable future.

[McMullen] Here are the Chiefs’ inactives for tonight’s game against Houston: CB Kristian Fulton, WR Jalen Royals, RB Elijah Mitchell, OG Trey Smith, OT Jawaan Taylor, and WR Nikko Remigio

[McMullen] Here are the Chiefs’ inactives for today’s game against the Cowboys: CB Kristian Fulton, WR Jalen Royals, RB Elijah Mitchell, CB Chris Roland-Wallace, OG Trey Smith, TE Noah Gray, and OL Esa Pole

[McMullen] Here are the Chiefs’ inactives for today’s game against the Colts: CB Josh Williams, RB Isiah Pacheco, WR Jalen Royals, TE Jared Wiley, RB Elijah Mitchell, and OL Wanya Morris

[McMullen] Here are the Chiefs’ inactives for today’s game vs. Denver: CB Joshua Williams, RB Isiah Pacheco, WR Jalen Royals, TE Jared Wiley and OL Hunter Nourzad

[McDowell] Grades for the offense at the midway point of the year — [Source](https://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/sam-mcdowell/article312800962.html) I screenshot the entire thing to make it easier to read here.

[Nate Taylor] Here are the Chiefs' inactive players for today's game against the Bills -- Isiah Pacheco (knee), Kristian Fulton, Jalen Royals, Jared Wiley, Elijah Mitchell, Josh Simmons & CJ Hanson. Clyde Edwards-Heliare & Mike Pennel are set to play their 1st game this year for the Chiefs.

[Chiefs] Our inactives for this Week 8 Monday Night Football matchup against the Commanders ⤵️

PFF grades for Chiefs week 7

Wideout Scouting — Looking at the WRs dominating the NFL today (limited sample size albeit) do you all suspect we are moving away from the big, tall, ultra-dominant, outside X-Widereceiver? It seems the newfangled archetype is the smaller, but powerfully stocky, slot heavy quicker than fast, demon route running technicians. WR's like Amon-Ra St. Brown, Chris Godwin, Emeka Egbuka, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Cooper Kupp, Rashee Rice even. Guys that are 5'11-6'0 200lbs not extremely fast or jumpball specialist, but guys

Wk 5 PFF grades

Wk 4 PFF grades

Legion of Zoom V 2.0

[McMullen] Final injury report for the week: Danna (quad) is Doubtful, Fulton (ankle) and Gilotte (illness) are Questionable; everybody else was a full participant — [Source](https://x.com/KCChiefs_Matt/status/1971657897181696005)

[McMullen] Here's Thursday's full injury report — [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/kcchiefsmatt.bsky.social/post/3lzotojm25k2q)

[Goldman] Chiefs WR coach Connor Embree on Jalen Royals: "I expect him to get in and play... He was trending up the whole way... He's quiet and works hard... Another guy, you ask him to do something and he'll do it."

[McMullen] Here's Wednesday's injury report for the Chiefs and Ravens.

[McMullen] Here’s the final injury report for the Chiefs and Giants — [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/kcchiefsmatt.bsky.social/post/3lz7kct44qc2p) No changes from yesterday. Danna and Fulton are out, Royals and Worthy are officially listed as questionable, and everybody else is a full go.

[Nate Taylor] Andy Reid said "we'll see how it goes" with Xavier Worthy's availability for Sunday's game against the Giants. Worthy & Jalen Royals did practice today.

[McMullen] Here's the full injury report for Thursday from the Chiefs and Giants

[McMullen] Mike Danna (quad) and Kristian Fulton (ankle) won’t practice for the Chiefs today. Everybody else, including Xavier Worthy and Jalen Royals, will participate in some capacity.

[McMullen] Xavier Worthy (shoulder) and Jalen Royals (knee) will practice today, per Coach Reid. Mike Danna and Kristian Fulton won’t practice.

Round 4 - Pick 31: Jalen Royals, WR, Utah State (Kansas City Chiefs)

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[OC] Punt Rank 2020: Week 7 - One Hekk of a performance, Kern you believe what happened to Brett, and a Berry nice surprise for Pittsburgh. More puns, more punts and highlights galore in this week's punt stats and analysis round up. — Welcome back, Punt Fans, to your regular edition of our weekly hunt for the King of Punt – it’s /r/NFL’s own Punt Rank. If you haven’t been here with me before, the concept is both simple and *fantastically* over-engineered. Lemme break it down: Each punter’s performance against **five vital punting metrics** is ranked against every other punter in the league. Those rankings are **combined into a weighted average ranking** – the 2020 NFL Punt Rank. Punt Heroes rise to the top; Punt Zeros sin

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