{"id":2436756,"date":"2026-05-29T10:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2436756"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:46:55","slug":"chiefs-news-5-29-jalen-royals-and-jared-wiley-early-standouts-at-otas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/chiefs-news-5-29-jalen-royals-and-jared-wiley-early-standouts-at-otas\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs News 5\/29: Jalen Royals and Jared Wiley early standouts at OTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\"><strong>1. Patrick Mahomes, QB, Kansas City Chiefs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">There\u2019s no guarantee Mahomes will win Comeback Player of the Year just by being healthy for most or all of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Since winning his second league MVP in 2022, his passing numbers have steadily declined toward average. The Chiefs also have serious questions at wide receiver\u2014especially with Rashee Rice recovering from knee surgery and unavailable for OTAs and minicamp while serving a 30-day jail term tied to a probation violation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">However, there is a good chance Mahomes <em>will<\/em> play for most, if not all, of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHe\u2019s way ahead of schedule,\u201d GM Brett Veach told SiriusXM Radio in early May (h\/t NFL.com\u2019s Kevin Patra).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">If Mahomes does play the majority of the season, and if he helps Kansas City return to the top of the AFC hierarchy, it\u2019s hard to envision another player passing him for CPOY.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Mahomes remains one of the league\u2019s most electric offensive playmakers when at his best, and he\u2019s facing real adversity for the first time in his career. The 30-year-old has never missed significant time with an injury and has never entered the regular season with Kansas City as an underdog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Seeing one of the league\u2019s brightest stars overcome the biggest challenges of his pro career could easily become one of the defining storylines of 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.arrowheadpride.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Patrick Mahomes, QB, Kansas City Chiefs There\u2019s no guarantee Mahomes will win Comeback Player of the Year just by being healthy for most or all of the 2026 season. Since winning his second league MVP in 2022, his passing numbers have steadily declined toward average. The Chiefs also have serious questions at wide receiver\u2014especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2436757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[478273,356814],"class_list":["post-2436756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-arrowheadlines","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Chiefs-News-529-Jalen-Royals-and-Jared-Wiley-early-standouts.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436758,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436756\/revisions\/2436758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2436757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}