Patrick Mahomes cranks up hype surrounding Chiefs' Justyn Ross
Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback in the league and proved to the world it doesn't matter who his receivers are. Sure, he still had Travis Kelce, but he had an entirely new group of receivers on the Kansas City Chiefs, outside of Hardman, and still had an MVP season with a Super Bowl MVP. […]
Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback in the league and proved to the world it doesn't matter who his receivers are. Sure, he still had Travis Kelce, but he had an entirely new group of receivers on the Kansas City Chiefs, outside of Hardman, and still had an MVP season with a Super Bowl MVP.
Now he won't have Hardman or Smith-Schuster. It will just be Kadarius Toney, Skyy Moore, Justin Watson, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, and possibly Justyn Ross, who is back working out with Mahomes in Texas after a terrible injury to his foot last season.
"Yeah, I mean, the talent is through the roof," Mahomes said of Ross. I think anybody can see that and I think he's gotten better and better even though he wasn't active all year long, he was in the building and he was able to see the guys, and how we do things and listening and being in some of the meetings and stuff like that. And so I'm excited for him to get out there and be able to get the reps and practice and, and get the, the little fine details that we like to do in this offense. And like I said, the talent is there, he works his tail off. I'm like, man, you got to ease up a little bit. He wants to run every route 100 times. But you'd rather have to ease up on the guy, make him kind of ease up on himself. But, you know, he wants to work and, and to be the best player that he could possibly be."
Ross has shown that he can be very good. But, we have yet to see it at all on a football field in live action in the NFL. We have seen in college that he has elite talent, but he can't stay on the field, and we saw that last offseason.
He wasn't really a gamble because he was an undrafted signee, but at the same time, he has a high ceiling. The Chiefs knew what they were getting when they signed him. Turn his tape on and you will see what they saw. He is a guy that benefits from playing in an offense like this one.
Not only that, he brings something to this wide receiver group that the Chiefs don't really have – size. They have MVS who has size, and Watson isn't that small, but other than that, they don't have a ton of size. Ross brings that and elite footwork. Now we just have to see if he can stay healthy and transfer those crazy practice highlights into plays in live action.
