When training camp opens later this month, the Kansas City Chiefs 2016 draft class will get their first real taste of the National Football League. Missouri Western University, the site of their annual camp activities, serves as a baptism by fire for first year players. After spending the better part of their summer in shorts, rookies will transition into full speed, padded practices. Players who flashed in the second and third phases of the offseason program often get washed out by the speed and complexity of camp’s early days.
Others, namely Marcus Peters in 2015, seize the opportunity to compete and make their short stay in St.