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The one position battle remaining for the Chiefs

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Chiefs told Kingsley Suamataia when they drafted him he would be given a chance to be their starting left tackle. The thought, immediately, was a lot for him.

"Blocking for Patty Mahomes himself? Oh, my, it's mind-blowing," Suamataia said shortly after he was selected in the second round. "I'm going to have to come in there and let him trust me like, 'I've got you. Nobody's going to touch you. Even in practice nobody's going to touch you.'

"If I do get the opportunity to be his blindside [blocker], that would mean the world to me .