NFL Trade Rumors
Broncos HC Sean Payton has been impressed with new WR Jaylen Waddle‘s quickness and start/stop ability during their first practices together.
“He’s had a good week,” Payton said, via Jon Heath of the Broncos Wire. “He’s someone who picks things up real quick. He had a real good day yesterday. You can just feel his instincts, his quickness and his ability to really to not only run fast but stop fast. So he’s doing well.”
Denver WR Courtland Sutton thinks Waddle is a unique talent and can’t wait to see how he helps transform the offense.
“[H]e’s a special dude,” Sutton said. “There are a lot of things that he has — the qualities that he does that are very unique to himself. I say that in a very specific way because he has some qualities that only he can do. It’s fun to be able to see it up close and personal. I think Coach [Davis] Webb and Coach Payton have done a really good job already of trying to figure out the things that he can do well to help us in our room and help our offense.”
The Chiefs landed DT Peter Woods and CB Mansoor Delane with their two first-round picks in the 2026 NFL Draft. Woods said he and Delane have already expressed to each other that they are “very important to one another.”
“We were just telling each other how our jobs are very important to one another,” Woods said, via Matt McMullen of the team’s site. “I help him get interceptions, and he helps me get sacks. We just keep it that simple.”
Kansas City also took CB Jadon Canady in the fourth round. Canady said that his college coach, Oregon’s Dan Lanning, is a die-hard Chiefs fan and was ecstatic to see him drafted by them.
“He was my first phone call, and he was so excited – just screaming and happy,” Canady said. “It was cool to see for sure.”
Fifth-round WR Cyrus Allen out of Cincinnati said he envisioned playing for Kansas City when his team played Nebraska at Arrowhead Stadium in August.
“We were the home team, so we got to use the home locker room,” said Allen. “It was in my head like maybe one day I could play for the Chiefs, so when it happened, it was just crazy.”
