Last season, many people expected the Kansas City Chiefs to win an unprecedented third straight Super Bowl championship. Instead, they fell in Super Bowl LIX to the Philadelphia Eagles, and it wasn’t even close.
Over the last few years, they have been winning with defense, but they haven’t really addressed that side of the football so far this offseason.
After Philly quarterback Jalen Hurts riddled them by completing 17 of 22 pass attempts in the big game in January, the Chiefs could use a little more pressure on opposing signal-callers in order to return to the top of the NFL mountain this fall and winter.
Cory Woodroof of USA TODAY For The Win predicts that they will sign veteran defensive lineman Calais Campbell in order to bolster their pass-rushing attack.
“Campbell deserves to at least play in another Super Bowl, and joining the Chiefs would give him an excellent chance of doing so,” Woodruff wrote. “Kansas City would be lucky to add somebody like Campbell to the defensive line.”
Campbell, who is entering his 18th season, made the Super Bowl with the Arizona Cardinals as a rookie, but he has mostly languished on teams that didn’t have the horses to go all the way.
The one possible exception was his stint with the Baltimore Ravens from 2020 to 2022, but the Ravens won just one playoff game during that time.
He is a six-time Pro Bowler, and while he isn’t playing at a Pro Bowl level anymore, he managed to register 5.0 sacks, 12 quarterback hits, 12 tackles for loss and five passes defended last season while with the Miami Dolphins.
Perhaps he could be the final piece for Kansas City as it seeks its fourth Vince Lombardi Trophy of the Patrick Mahomes era.
