If there's a startling amount of hope for Jake Briningstool among Kansas City Chiefs, there are good reasons. And that goes far beyond Briningstool's own history of solid production and reliable talent.
In fact, the promise for undrafted tight ends on the Chiefs—and this includes Tre Watson as well as Briningstool, even though he's starting camp on the Physically Unable to Perform list—is found in the team's impressive history of identifying and developing talent at the position. That starts with the best to ever play the position in starter Travis Kelce and runs through a proven history of unearthed gems.