Featured Columnist IVAugust 27, 2024
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The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs reportedly added some defensive depth on Monday.
In response to NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport, the reigning champions acquired linebacker Cameron Thomas from the Arizona Cardinals for a seventh-round draft decide. Rapoport famous this provides the Chiefs “some added edge assist.”
Arizona chosen Thomas out of San Diego State with a third-round decide within the 2022 NFL draft, however he was only a secondary contributor for the NFC West crew.
He appeared in all 17 video games as a rookie and posted 18 tackles, three sacks and one move defended. He then appeared in 15 video games final season and completed with 22 tackles, zero sacks, one fumble restoration and one defensive landing.
Maybe a change of surroundings can assist him unlock among the potential the Cardinals absolutely noticed once they used a mid-round decide on him in 2022.
Thomas joins a Chiefs crew that thrived on attending to the quarterback final season.
They had been second within the league with 57 sacks, which helped propel them into the postseason and eventual Tremendous Bowl title. It was their second consecutive Lombardi Trophy and third within the final 5 years, and something lower than one other ring can be thought-about a disappointment for the league’s golden commonplace.
Even the chance that Thomas can assist them obtain simply that as a further pass-rusher makes it value giving up a seventh-round decide.
