The Ringer's 2025 NFL Power Rankings The Ringer 9. Chiefs Congratulations to the Chiefs for avoiding a disastrous 03 start, putting up just enough offense to beat a bad Giants team. It took two and a half quarters for Kansas City's offense to get anything to work in the passing game against New York. That's as good an indicator as any that this offense is becoming rotten in ways that I doubt can be fixed during the season.202NFL mock draft: Major QB shakeup as new faces replace big names in first round CBS SportsRound 1 Pick 28Anthony Lucas EDGEUSC Sr 6'5 285 lbsLucas showed promise early on last year before a lower leg injury ended his season early. He's looked even better early on this year. He's the kind of jumbo end Steve Spagnuolo loves in his defense and could be an everydown player across from George Mahomes Says Tyquan Thornton is xceeding My Expectations' After Chiefs Win Bleacher ReportMahomes said Monday he connected with Thornton while working with the practice squad late last season, then again in April when hosting passcatchers at his home in Texas.e'd come in and run some of those deeper routes, and I would throw to him a couple times last year https://www.chiefsfullapparel.com/Chiefs_Peyton_Hendershot_Jersey , just to see what he had. And you could see that he had juice, Mahomes said about Thornton ht KSHB into OTAs, and then into training camp, he was one of those guys that was down there with me working in Texas. So I knew he was going to be a good football player, but hes even exceeding my expectations.