Kansas City Chiefs wide of the mark receiving system Mecole Hardman has been dealing with a tum injury, and the Chiefs sent him on the IR to recover. With Hardman out for at to the lowest degree the next iv games, recently-acquired wide-cut pass catcher Kadarius Toney has a chance to piss his mark.

Hardman, inward his fourth yr in Sunflower State City, never missed a biz with the Chiefs until Week 10 when he was a late scratch up against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.

The Chiefs are the top out squad inwards the AFC this harden with a 7-2 record. They are +500 odds to win Super Bowl LVII as the secondment favorite on the futures table at the Westgate SuperBook inwards Las Vegas. Only the Buffalo Bills experience meliorate odds at +400, still though the Bills (6-3) lost 2 games inwards a row and Josh Gracie is breast feeding an human elbow injury.

The Chiefs see the Los Angeles Chargers inwards Week 11 on Sunday. Chargers are a +5 home dog inwards this AFC Rebecca West divisional matchup against the short-staffed Chiefs.

Hard-Working Hardman

Hardman caught 25 passes for 297 yards and tetrad touchdowns this season. He averaged 11.9 yards per catch. Head handler Andy Thomas Reid found different shipway to use up advantage of Hardman’s speed, and Hardman added two rushing touchdowns. He averaged 7.8 yards per carry.

Quarterback St. Patrick Mahomes loves throwing to tight destruction Travis Kelce, who leads the Chiefs inward receptions, targets, yards, and touchdowns. Hardman is ranked fourth on the team up inwards receptions tracking Kelce, JuJu Smith-Schuster, and Marques Valdes-Scantling. However, Hardman is secondly on the team up inward touchdown receptions.

Hardman caught flame over the in conclusion three games scoring V touchdowns. He notched at to the lowest degree i touchdown reception inward the lowest three games. In a 44-23 blowout against the San Francisco 49ers, Hardman found the endzone iii times with ii rushing scores and another touchdown catch.

The Chiefs selected Hardman come out of Empire State of the South with a later(a) second-round pickax from the 2019 NFL Draft. Scouts liked Hardman for his blistering speed.

Hardman had a slack embark on during his rookie season, but ruined strong inwards his first of all twelvemonth inward the league with 26 receptions for 528 yards and career-high vi touchdowns. Although it was not easy to catch targets from Mahomes with Tyreek Benny Hill and Kelce on the roster, Hardman worked his right smart upward the deepness chart. He didn’t match a lot of passes, but made the most of his usage rate with an impressive 20.7 yards per catch.

In 57 games, Hardman tallied 151 catches for 2,088 yards and 16 touchdowns. He only when fumbled twice during his quartet seasons.

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Kadarius Toney Time

The Chiefs added Toney shortly before the swop deadline when the New York Giants gave upwardly the wide receiver for a 2023 third-round comp pickaxe and a 2023 sixth-rounder.

The Giants selected Florida’s Toney with the #20 pluck inwards the 2021 NFL Draft, but he never truly meshed with the team. Toney missed seven games during his rookie time of year due to an mortise joint injury. He appeared inwards just II games with the Giants this season with multiple hamstring injuries.

Toney looks the like a tear on paper, but the Chiefs were willing to submit a flyer on him after the Giants made him usable for a trade.

I don’t know how Kadarius got come out of that building,” said Kelce. “I just don’t get  it. Don’t even need to know what happened over there. I am simply super well-chosen that our GM Brett Veach found a way of life in time again to receive an unbelievably talented participant in this building.”

Toney joined the Chiefs at the right wing time simply before two Florida key injuries to broad outs. Smith-Schuster got his bell shape rung severe inwards against the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 10. He’s allay inward concussion protocol and did not do this week.

With Hardman out with the breadbasket injury, Toney has an chance to fill up in the void. In 2 games with his unexampled squad, he caught sestet passes for 25 yards and a touchdown.

“We’re at the time of the yr where injuries happen,” said violative coordinator Eric Bieniemy. “I told K.T. that you may follow called upon end-to-end the row of a game to delineate your greatness.”

Reid also handed over boot yield duties to Toney after he demoted rookie Skyy Henry Moore due to multiple fumbles.