Arrowhead Report's Tucker Franklin and Conner Christopherson discuss the Kansas City Chiefs' most underrated players and spend a lot of time talking about the defensive line in particular.
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00:00 And what are your thoughts on his play so far this season?
00:03 He's the fourth best rated defensive player, according to PFF on the Chiefs.
00:07 I it's there was hype around him in training camp.
00:13 I was like, I didn't understand
00:16 what exactly that would entail,
00:21 but I think seeing what it is now, I can see why it was at least there.
00:25 Missouri S&T is div two, right?
00:28 Mm hmm.
00:30 So being from a div two school and coming up to the NFL without preseason
00:35 and playing this well is quite the achievement for him
00:38 as a as an undrafted free agent.
00:42 He's he's got all the physical tools, which is
00:45 saying a lot because on the inside you really have to be an athletic freak to
00:50 be good to show chops and run block or run defense and pass
00:55 pass rushing.
00:58 We see Chris Jones 6-6 like 3-10 and he moves like a like a linebacker at
01:04 the line.
01:05 So it's like you have to kind of be like that and Wharton's what like 6-4
01:09 290 and I saw some some film review of some of the snaps against Carolina.
01:15 He can move laterally.
01:17 It's kind of crazy how fast his first step is and it's on par with like
01:22 Chris Jones.
01:23 His his pass rushing moves themselves are of course not even close to what
01:26 Chris Jones's are because Jones is so refined now as a pass rusher, but he's
01:33 got the physical gifts.
01:34 He's got some pass rush moves.
01:36 His run defense is really good as like that three tech as a one tech.
01:42 It seems like he struggles a bit at the point of attack against double teams,
01:45 but overall, I mean for undrafted free agent, it's hard really to argue with
01:50 how he's or to be disappointed with how he's playing.
01:54 Yeah.
01:54 Yeah.
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