By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
A sunny Tuesday morning started the third day of Kansas City Chiefs Training Camp at Missouri Western and slowly became overcast through the practice that was moved up to just under two hours.
Practice lasted an hour and fifty-five minutes and saw another large crowd at the practice fields at Missouri Western.
The Chiefs have a young receiver room full of new guys and three new offensive linemen this training camp in St. Joseph.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes says as the practices move along, he likes to try different things to test some of those guys.
"I feel like now I have a good sense of the offense obviously, so I like to try to do stuff and see how guys react," Mahomes tells reporters during the post practice press conference. "I mean if that's using a lot of cadences throughout practice and see if the offensive line will sit in there with the new guys."
One guy that has been absent from large team drills has been running back Isiah Pacheco, continuing to recover from offseason surgeries on a broken bone in his hand and a torn labrum.
Pacheco has been getting limited work during training camp in St. Joseph though, so far donning that yellow non-contact jersey.
Veteran running back Jerick McKinnon, who has dealt with his own injuries during his career, knows how badly Pacheco wants to work.
"Everybody knows the energy he brings, his motor, the way he's engineered, and the way he works, but at the same time it's a process," Mckinnon says. "Not only is it about camp right now, but it's also about down the road and being healthy for the season, and then having that durability and lasting the season."
Pacheco did take some reps during 7 on 7 drills during Tuesday’s practice at Missouri Western State University but was still held back from full team drills.
The team will start padded practices on Friday. They'll be back in action tomorrow at 9:15am.
New Chiefs defender working on a learning curve
Searching for a replacement for Frank Clark this past offseason, the Kansas City Chiefs signed defensive end Charles Omenihu.
Omenihu says an Andy Reid training camp is living up to expectations, but with new schemes comes plenty of new things to learn.
"I think the biggest difference is just dropping, that's something that I haven't done my whole career, so that's something that I'm everyday learning and asking questions and trying to get better at," Omenihu says. "But as far as the role of rushing inside and out, it's been good."
Omenihu says that without Frank Clark and still no Chris Jones at camp, veterans like himself, Danny Shelton, and Derrick Nnadi have tried to help out some of the young guys during training camp in St. Joseph.
Injury updates
Head coach Andy Reid says wide receiver Kadarius Toney had surgery on his knee Tuesday morning. The timetable for his return is still unknown but Reid says he's hopeful for Toney to be back for the first game of the season. Defensive tackle Tershawn Wharton is still on the physically unable to perform list and once again did not practice. Rookie linebacker Isaiah Moore also left practice with some knee inflammation