Receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster is anticipated to return to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, experiences NFL Community’s Tom Pelissero.
Smith-Schuster performed the 2022-23 season with Kansas Metropolis, showing in 16 video games (beginning 14) and catching 78 passes for 933 yards with three touchdowns. Within the postseason, he added 10 catches for 89 yards because the Chiefs went on to win Tremendous Bowl LVII.
The seven-year veteran provides expertise to a comparatively younger Chiefs receiver corps led by Rashee Rice, free agent Marquise “Hollywood” Brown and rookie Xavier Worthy. Smith-Schuster will attempt to stand out from Skyy Moore, Justin Watson, Mecole Hardman and Kadarius Toney on Kansas Metropolis’s depth chart.
Nevertheless, Rice faces a possible suspension for his involvement in a multi-car crash in Dallas in April, whereas Brown is recovering from a separated shoulder suffered within the Chiefs’ first preseason sport.
After signing a three-year, $25.5 million take care of the New England Patriots in free company, Smith-Schuster performed in 11 video games (beginning seven). He compiled 29 receptions for 260 yards and a landing, hardly the manufacturing anticipated with that contract. The Patriots launched him in early August.
Reporters masking the Patriots level out that the workforce basically selected Smith-Schuster over Jakobi Meyers with the free agent contract, a trade-off that backfired. Meyers went to the Las Vegas Raiders and caught 71 passes for 807 yards and eight touchdowns final season.
Having performed seven NFL seasons, Smith-Schuster will doubtless signal for a veteran minimal of $1.21 million with the Patriots obligated to pay the remaining $7 million he was owed for this season, according to Spotrac.
Throughout his NFL profession, Smith-Schuster has 430 receptions for five,048 yards and 30 touchdowns, averaging 11.7 yards per catch. He performed his first 5 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers, who chosen him within the second spherical of the 2017 NFL Draft out of USC.