The Kansas City Chiefs are in the strongest draft position they have seen themselves in since they obtained the 1st overall pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, with which they selected offensive tackle Eric Fisher.
The biggest ongoing debate is what the Chiefs should do with the 9th overall pick, especially if one of the top three edge rushers – Rueben Bain Jr., David Bailey and Arvell Reese Jr. – are already off the board.
Much of the speculation has tied them to either the top cornerback Mansoor Delane, or the consensus second-best wide receiver Jordyn Tyson.
However NFL analyst Geoff Schwartz – writing on X – believes that the chances of Tyson ending up a Chief are very low for one specific reason.
Jordyn Tyson Predicted to Be Too Risky for Chiefs
“I’d be shocked if the Chiefs drafted Tyson with his injury history. They do not draft players high or sign free agents with injury history.” Schwartz posted on Tuesday.
“One freak injury isn’t injury history. Tyson has multiple injuries entering the NFL. Knee, collarbone, hamstring.” Schwartz replied to a commenter pointing out the Simmons example.
Schwartz also reiterated this point with a separate reply to his original post.
Tyson Has an Extensive Injury History Since 2022
Tyson has had some bad injury luck throughout the course of his collegiate career. A brutal knee injury that saw him tear his ACL, as well as his MCL and PCL meant that his 2023 season was limited to just three games – during which he did not record a single reception or rush attempt.
The following season Tyson had his breakout year in college football, managing 1,101 receiving yards and 10 touchdowns in 12 games, although a collarbone issue meant that he was unable to play in the team’s last couple of games of the year.
And this past season in 2025 the Arizona State product managed just 9 games – missing the final three – as he struggled with a hamstring injury. The same hamstring injury that prevented him from working out at the NFL Scouting Combine last month, and that will stop him from demonstrating what he can do at his pro day later this week.
Instead, Tyson will have to do some positional drills in front of scouts on April 17, less than a week before the opening night of the draft.
Is he too much of a risk for the Chiefs? Well it is always hard to tell whether injuries are symptomatic of an underlying issue that will stay with the player into the pros, or if it is simply an unfortunate run of luck that could conclude after he fully heals from his latest hamstring problem.
Regardless, with KC being wary of injury-hit players, the addition of Tyson as early as #9 does seem more and more unlikely.