LeSean McCoy‘s stay on the open market didn’t last long. Released by the Bills yesterday, Shady immediately drew interest from four teams, and as Adam Schefter of ESPN.com reports, McCoy will sign with the Chiefs. Terez A. Paylor of Yahoo! Sports says it will be a one-year, $3MM pact with incentives that can increase the value to $4MM (Twitter link).
Paylor adds in a separate tweet that the Chargers offered McCoy a similar contract, but McCoy opted to head to Kansas City due to his familiarity with head coach Andy Reid and the club’s front office. McCoy spent the first four years of his career under Reid when both men were with the Eagles.
The Chiefs’ decision to sign McCoy suggests that they were not entirely comfortable with presumptive RB1 Damien Williams taking the lion’s share of the carries. McCoy and Williams — much to the chagrin of Williams fantasy owners — will likely share the load, with sixth-round rookie Darwin Thompson and second-year player Darrel Williams in support.
McCoy struggled in 2018, which turned out to be his final year in Buffalo, but the Bills’ O-line was a mess. The six-time Pro Bowler is definitely nearing the end of the road, but he did top 1,000 yards in each of his prior two seasons with the Bills, and with a dynamic offense around him and younger players to ease some of his burden, there is reason to believe that he can be productive for the Chiefs in 2019.
McCoy, 31, has 10,606 career rushing yards, good for 25th on the all-time list.
I’m not surprised, Veach was coming up in the Eagles system and had input when they drafted McCoy, as well as D-Jax and Fletcher Cox and a few other great picks.
Thompson was going to be the steal of my draft now I might drop
Don’t think he was ever going to be a steal. He was going to share carries.
Darwin’s full value in fantasy will be realized next season, IMO
Another great weapon for the Chiefs to pair alongside the rest of the speed and shifty players they already have. Wouldn’t be surprised if Chiefs break the season scoring record.
Shady and the Chiefs should be a good fit. Now they just have to resurrect the 65 toss power trap.
Nice recall!!!
I’d hold onto Williams. Shady is a 31 year old RB coming off a bad season. Don’t blame all of that on the O-line. He’s not the same RB from his Eagles days.