KC Chiefs are just window shopping on Xavien Howard

The thought of a serious defensive import sounds actually good proper about now for followers of the K.C. Chiefs. That’s additionally true for the fan base of any NFL franchise.

With the tier of gamers reportedly out there on the buying and selling block lately, swinging a deal appears like a very good transfer for groups critical about contending. Go rusher Chandler Jones is probably the only most underrated go rusher within the recreation and he’s ready to leave Arizona Cardinals behind in the desert. The identical could be stated of Xavien Howard‘s relationship with the Miami Dolphins.

Howard particularly is a well-liked face on Twitter lately with Chiefs followers after demanding a trade away from South Florida for the methods through which he feels disrespected by the Dolphins’ therapy of his contract. He signed an extension solely two years in the past that made him the highest-paid nook within the recreation, however the market has eclipsed his deal whilst he’s continued to supply elite-level play for the Fins.

Don’t anticipate the Chiefs to get into any bidding for Xavien Howard.

The Chiefs haven’t made a serious funding at cornerback in fairly a while and waved goodbye to Bashaud Breeland this offseason in free company. The Chiefs have a pleasant assortment of younger gamers headed by L’Jarius Sneed, however Charvarius Ward is in his contract 12 months and there are questions surrounding Deandre Baker coming off of damage and Mike Hughes as a change-of-scenery candidate.

There’s room within the pecking order for a top-shelf veteran to return in and elevate the complete unit, to make sure, however that’s additionally true for nearly each NFL workforce. Howard is an elite go defender who would enhance any workforce, and he’s positioning himself to change into very costly for some workforce. Given the Chiefs have already got their fair proportion of pricy performers, it doesn’t make a lot sense to surrender each the draft capital and the funds to Howard when the workforce wasn’t even fascinated about Breeland’s return for a number of million.

That’s to not say that the Chiefs couldn’t transfer some cash round in the event that they actually wished so as to add a participant. However proper now, the workforce nonetheless has to fret about large cash extensions for each security Tyrann Mathieu and left sort out Orlando Brown Jr. As well as, if the workforce had been to speculate closely able, it is smart that it will be at a place already approached as a needy one, akin to extensive receiver the place the Chiefs chased JuJu Smith-Schuster and others in free company to no avail.

Whereas it sounds good to dream of such a transfer by common supervisor Brett Veach, it’s doubtless that the Chiefs will sit nonetheless with what they’ve in home than exit and add a participant like Howard and even Jones. The cash doesn’t make sense, and the workforce hasn’t signaled any fear on their half on the place. The thought of Howard is nice, but when the Chiefs are trying on the cornerback, it’s solely as a result of they’re window purchasing and in no way as a result of they’re critical.