One syllable uttered at training camp often doesn’t warrant much unpacking and explanation. When asked in the media tent after Wednesday’s training camp sessions if there’s more pressure on a first-round draft pick to be great, Erving parted his lips just long enough to squeeze out a “nope” with a tone that signaled let’s keep it moving.
A 6-foot-5, 313-pound fourth-year lineman out of Florida State, Erving came to the Chiefs last August via trade from Cleveland. The 19th overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft after a highly decorated college career, he’d been labeled a bust and jettisoned after two seasons by the latest in the line of ever-changing Cleveland front office regimes led by former Chiefs executive John Dorsey.