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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
^^^Wouldn't say Kelce is cooked per se, he was still the leading TE in yards before today. Just that with no one else to care about as a receiving threat teams are upping the double teams on him. Crazy to think JuJu alone was that important to them last year, but a live, reliable WR versus a bunch of #4/5 WRs is a big deal, I guess.
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I think he slowed down a fair bit this year. He can still play, but you can't run an offence with him as the focal point any more. They have to move to making him a complementary piece.
I think Rashee Rice is as good as JuJu was, even better. But behind Rice the rest of the WR corps has been historically bad. Last year the likes of MVS, Hardman, Watson, Moore, and eventually Toney as well as McKinnon provided a decent amount of complementary production.
This year there has been next to nothing from that group and Pacheco has not really provided enough in the pass game to make up for what they have not got from McKinnon.
They need to add a succession plan at TE, and get another feature receiver to pair with Rice and try to make Kelce a third option next year. Also need better Tackle play and a blocking TE to make the run game more consistent so they can run to the outside more effectively. Going to be tough...you only have so much draft capital and Mahomes eats up so much cap that you need 14 highly productive guys on rookie deals and this past draft outside of Rice is not looking good.