Everything is clicking for Kansas City Chiefs WR Skyy Moore as he enters his second year in the league. 

Moore finished his rookie campaign strong, catching a wide-open touchdown pass in Super Bowl LVII and putting his special teams woes behind him. His rookie season, however, was hardly what one would call good or productive. 

Andy Reid is notorious for having a difficult system for wide receivers to learn, and it's even more difficult for players who are learning all three spots as Moore was. The 22-year-old confirmed to reporters on Wednesday that it took him a long time to get down the offensive scheme and learn all of his responsibilities.

"To understand all three positions, I feel like it took me maybe until about Week 4-Week 5," Moore said. "To understand everything completely."

This shouldn't come as a big surprise, given that Moore didn't play more than 25 snaps in a given game in the first five weeks of the 2022 NFL season. Now, with a full season under his belt, Moore is playing faster and doing more within the offense than ever before.

“I think growth within the system of being able to play fast because he knows where to go," Chiefs OC Matt Nagy said of Moore. "He’s had the talent, last year just learning the offense and now being able to transition to playing faster. Now he’ll get more opportunities and I think he’ll do well."

Could Moore have learned something differently to help him find a greater level of on-field success as a rookie? He doesn't think so. In fact, he wouldn't change anything about his rookie struggles. 

"It's something you have to go through to learn it basically," Moore said. "You can take as many mental reps on the sideline, but until you go mess that play up, you're not really going to get it in your head."  

That learning process, however, has the second-year wideout feeling infinitely more comfortable as the 2023 NFL season approaches.

“Way more comfortable," Moore said. "It’s just like I got that year of experience, so I feel like (there are) certain things that I already know. I went through a whole season like I shouldn’t have to get coached on where to align or where to – like anything that happens before the snap, I don’t need to get coached up on. It’s more like, 'How do I beat the guy?' instead of, 'What route are we running?'”

Knowing his role inside and out is a big part of his growth in 2023. Moore can now pick the words out of the play call in the huddle that specifically relate to him on any given play. That wasn't always the case.

He has also developed greater trust and on-field chemistry with Patrick Mahomes, knowing exactly what his quarterback likes in certain situations. 

"When I arrive in certain windows," Moore said. "Or just always being ready to break a play in the scramble drill. You know, stuff like that just to allow him to make plays." 

In training camp, that has led to some plays where the two are now connecting when they wouldn't have a season ago. 

"Yeah, there has been a couple of plays like that," Moore said. "Where it's like,' Oh, now I know this is what he was talking about.' There have been a couple of plays where it was the exact same look as last year, but I treated it differently. Last year, it might have been an incomplete pass. This year, I catch it and go for some more yards." 

The hope is those types of plays between Mahomes and Moore will persist come the regular season. 

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