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The run game has been a problem for the Kansas City Chiefs all season. A new NFL rumor revealed that the team did make a failed attempt to improve the backfield with one of the best backs on the trade market this week.
Kansas City heads into Week 10 in a real fight to reach the playoffs this winter. There are different reasons for their 5-4 start. Their usually very good defense has been inconsistent, and injuries and suspensions badly hampered their passing attack early in the season. But most concerning is a run game that has been a key weakness often this year.
Three times this season, Patrick Mahomes has led the team in rushing yards, and neither Isiah Pacheco nor Kareem Hunt has run for more than 60 yards in any of their nine games. The Chiefs haven’t had an elite run game during their dominant run, but they still often got big days from the backfield to help round out their offensive attack.
If they want to get back to the Super Bowl, they need more from their run game, and the team apparently tried to address the problem with an impact player before Tuesday’s NFL trade deadline.
According to Nate Taylor of ESPN, KC was in conversations with the New York Jets about a trade for veteran back Breece Hall. While Hall allegedly wanted to be moved following a pair of blockbuster trades that sent Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams out of town, the Chiefs’ offer was not good enough to bring him to Missouri. Kansas City reportedly offered a fourth-round pick, but New York stood pat at nothing less than a third-rounder.
“According to the same team source, the Chiefs felt surrendering a 2026 third-round pick — a future player with four years of team control — was more valuable than eight games (and a potential postseason run) from Hall, who will be an unrestricted free agent in the spring,” Taylor reported.
The Chiefs insider claims a deal on Hall was the closest the team came to making any moves before Nov. 4 after several seasons of being active before the trade deadline.
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