His compass points due north, that's for sure

****ing ridiculous that this kid isn't getting more playing time.

Pretty sure he played his most snaps tonight. Certainly feels like he did.

Did Ross even get an offensive snap tonight? If he did, I missed it. No targets at the very least. Know he had a couple drops last week, but he also made a nice play. The lack of usage for him and Rice - especially Rice - is borderline malpractice by whoever calls plays and personnel packages.

Am I crazy or has Rice already eclipsed Moore's entire rookie campaign in six games?

Moore can't sniff Rice's jock.

Rice had a nice night. 4-4, no drops, 72 yards. Couple big catches.


Wish they'd ramp his snaps/targets up after tonight.

Looking more and more like AJ Brown out there.

He has, Moore's first regular season TD came this year.

just thought of a great sound effect to use for rice in my videos ROFL

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He runs hard. He’s a high sparq guy with a big squat. Reminds me of Pacheco.

Not sure why sky moores strength even is. I’m not sure if he’ll be in the league in 2 years

Perhaps Andy will use the mini-bye to formulate a plan for getting Rice more involved.......

I thought Pacheco too and was honestly surprised to read this from someone else…

With some added experience the #2 highlight becomes a TD. The lights are a little bright for the kid but at the pace he's going he's going to be shining when it matters most.

By week 12 this guy will be playing every snap and producing well and we'll look back and laugh. More so when we're winning playoff games with him making key catch after key catch.

But man it's annoying right now not seeing him and Kelce out there together way more. Any time Rice isn't on the field, it's like Mahomes wants Kelce and if that's not there, the whole offense breaks down.

On this we agree.

I did not like the pick at the time and was not happy.

As of today he's the brightest spot out of our WR group and the one guy who's production points towards deserving a bigger piece of the Mahomes pie.

That third catch that Clay posted was what had me most impressed last night. No hesitation, see the hall in hands and turn it upfield. He needs to be a focal point. So much better than every other WR on the roster in a more traditional sense.

He makes me so happy. Is it weird I want him to get the ball on literally every play?

Those 70 yards he got tonight was more than Justin Watson has got in a single game in his entire nfl career. Incredible.

We’ll see a lot more Rice after bye week.

Reid is no rush to get him going. He’ll have more game like yesterdays and after bye he’ll take off.

I think Veach hit on this one. He's gonna be good.

He had 49% of the snaps this week. I think that's fairly positive!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Love this rep to emphasize Rice&#39;s strengths. Separates with physicality on the slot and turns a short gain into 20+ yards with his acceleration. <a href="https://t.co/GhCLUdKXYj">pic.twitter.com/GhCLUdKXYj</a></p>&mdash; Seth Keysor (@RealMNchiefsfan) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealMNchiefsfan/status/1712831343879450678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

and Patrick. Everyone who said he shouldn't have any input on picks should slap themselves in the nuts for such a bad opinion.

Stole this from Reddit. So not 100% it's complete accurate.

Rashee Rice tonight: 34 of 71 snaps, 4 targets, 4 catches, 72 yards

His snap count only trailed MVS (40 snaps) and Skyy Moore (37 snaps) out of the Chiefs WRs.

Looks great after the catch and although not a burner , looks explosive, if he settles in with this drops which look like him taking his eye ff the ball to work upfield , he will be a pretty good pro .

They have been. Rice had damn near the same amount of snaps as Moore.

He's faster than I thought he was. The best WR on the team right now, and he obviously has a lot of room for improvement.

Getting Boldin vibes .

Over/under 750 yards for him this year? I think I might take the over, just barely.

I really like this guy in my opinion, he plays for the Kansas City Chiefs.

Sammy Watkins but not constructed of wet paper mache.

His short burst really showed up last night. On that screen on 3rd and 17 he was flying.

Think we all thought that was Pacheco at first

They've been running this play on Denver for years LMAO

Andy must have tried it bc it worked well with Kelce when Vance was their coach

So here's the most exciting thing about Rice.

I think his body control is still his strongest attribute. It's the thing that jumped out most about him as I watched him heading into the draft and he shows it over and over again in the clip above. It's next level. Not next level college - it's Tee Higgins style next level NFL body control. Few WRs and even fewer CBs can do what he's able to do in that clip.

And we still aren't using it. I have my theories on that (mostly that Mahomes has mind-****ed himself into not making his way through his reads at all) but I think they'll get sorted out in time.

Right now Rice is being used mostly on quick hitters and underneath routes t hat allow him to run after the catch. If we start to also give him a few shot plays/gm (and actually throw them) I think he'll be able to start showing off this sort of body control to go next level.

We're still only about halfway to what Rice can do and how we can use him in the offense.

Any information on how many routes run?

He was WAYYY up there on catches/route run before this game.

Man, he squares up and just motors. Protect that ball, rook. These NFL DB dudes all chop hard from the blind side.

Great point here.

Reminder that Rice showed elite explosiveness during pre-draft testing. Looks so far like it translates to his play in the pros. Dynamic acceleration after the catch, looks like he's playing at a different speed than those around him. Need to get him more touches.

Yet we had people insisting that his athleticism was an issue.

That's a really good point IMHO!

I conservatively believe he is the greatest player of all time at any position in any sport at any level

He looks really ****ing good. If Watson misses any time, then I bet Rice starts getting 60% or more of the snaps. Last night was the 2nd most percent of snaps he's gotten.

Week 1 - 31%
Week 2 - 18%
Week 3 - 51%
Week 4 - 46%
Week 5 - 30%
Week 6 - 49%

He needs even more, because he looks like a bad ass.

I have also heard "Give hima year in the weight room...." That kid breaks tackles and blocks his ass off. Strength is not the issue.

Week 3 was the Bears blowout too, so a lot of those snaps came because of that.

Over.

He had that one play against the broncos where he caught the ball out on a WR screen or close to it, and just took off in a straight line at immense acceleration and mass. I bet a bunch of defensive backs were terrified.

This guy is in our future fo sho!

I let Rice go in my fantasy league after week 3. You're all welcome.

Double

that reminded me of the scene in lord of the rings when the rohirrim all mow down the orcs simply by being on horseback at 300 miles per hour

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PFF loves the kid, says everyone else is AIDS.

Snap counts by game
20
13
39
32
20
35

I bet he tops 40 against LA

He's already better than Skyy in his first 6 games.

Exactly. Rice is showing us early on what a good draft pick is supposed to look like. There's a reason why Skyy has not.

With the Rice pick, it seems like Beach may be applying the same RAS DB approach to receivers.

Long, explosive, good size/speed ratio.

what are the grades?

Edit: Rice = 81.8

Not too shabby for a rookie.

Sky sucks. Pickens was the guy we should have taken instead of the trade back. At least Alec Pierce sucks to so 1 of the 3 guys taken there hit.

Truth. It seemed like such a no brainer when he fell in the draft and was there for the taking. But I really think that was a "miss by choice." There had to have been a reason why they passed on Pickens. Im sure they knew he was far more physically talented.

PFF says that KC has three elite skill players (Kelce, Pacheco and Rice). To go with an elite QB and a couple elite linemen.

Obviously a mistake, but Veach/Andy don't deserve to be crushed for the occasional miss when they hit on damn near every pick.

Teams care about the character issues. Like it or not the big talent usually comes with baggage.

Rice isn't there yet it's too small a sample size, not sure Pacheco is top level yet either, but I reckon that's about right. Mahomes, Kelce, Creed and Thuney ( though our IOL this year has looked off their high standard). Pacheco a notch below. Rice maybe on his way? We need an elite LT and WR and we're rolling everyone

I like Rice

I knew the second we traded down instead of drafting Pickens it would come back to sting us



edit: also these PFF deep dives are full of shit. They said James was a treasure. They convinced me to pick up Khalif Raymond in dynasty and he hasn't done jack. It's so stupid.

You know who is good? the guys that catch the ball and run. Everything else from PFF is them shoving their nose up their own ass.

That's great but they need to play him more now rather than find out he's not quite ready after the trade deadline.

Now if only KC's elite head coach will give his elite young rookie moar snaps!

;)

I've heard a couple people say that Pickens is an enormous asshole which is why he didn't get drafted in the first round.

He is! You know what I don't care. In the least. Some of the best receivers of all time were assholes or divas it comes with the territory.

Sure but other than Terrell Owens, which was only a year and a half, when has Andy Reid ever wanted to put up with that type of player.

Why are you posting this dumb shit about Pickens in the Rashee Rice thread? What's it have to do with Rice?

You know I don't really think we need thread police but thanks for the offer dlp

Tyreek Hill did backflips into the endzone

:rolleyes: Maybe because Big Cat Daddy brought it up about 5 posts ago??? Ill explain it to you, because you're slow and would rather just be a little beta bitch boy post policeman... The Rice pick was good. It was compared to the Skyy Moore pick, which was bad. BCD said Pickens should have been the pick instead of Skyy. Had that happened, KC would have had 2 very good 2nd round picks in successive drafts - Pickens and Rice. Get it now? If u could read you could answer alot of your stupid questions.

If you could read you may have noticed the frequent calls for you to post less and catch a cyanide pill in the throat.

LMAO That was pretty good! I can read, I just ignore idiots. However, this time I made an exception.

That isn't remotely the same. Not even in the same universe.

Just to be clear here: Do you think we win last year's AFC Championship Game without Moore's clutch 29 yard return with less than a minute left? Maybe we do, maybe we don't, but that return unquestionably propelled us to another Super Bowl appearance and win.

whatever. I'm not going to spend my saturday trying to convince someone that Hill is a diva like you either get it or you don't. He's a loose cannon for sure.

Not the same as an asshole but I did say asshole or diva