At Monday’s training camp press conference, Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy revealed wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster as an impactful room leader.

“Not to take anything away from any receivers that we’ve been with here or anywhere else, for me, this, this collective group of wide receivers from top to bottom, is very, extremely competitive, talented, and they’re competing. They’re pushing each other. I’ll bring up a guy that right now isn’t, I don’t want to take for granted, as JuJu Smith-Schuster,” said Nagy, “unbelievable right now, with what he’s doing, as far as a leader in that room, watching guys out here walk throughs, he’s taking these young guys and using his experience and given his knowledge to them, and it’s exciting because he’s a great player. So from top down, we have a lot of speed. The guys have knowledge. They’re smart, they play fast, they’re tough. Now it’s just the timing with Pat (Patrick Mahomes), and we’re excited to take this aggressive mentality every day in practice and then take it into the season because we’re ready and locked in.”

Smith-Schuster was a 2018 Pro Bowler while a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He finished the 2024 season with 18 catches for 231 yards and two touchdowns in fourteen games (eight starts).

He showed leadership last season in the locker room and on the field. Smith-Schuster’s best performance during the season was in Week 5 against the New Orleans Saints, recording seven catches for 130 yards.

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