Jerrion Ealy
Ealy is back with the Chiefs after spending much of the 2022 campaign on Kansas City's practice squad. He signed with the Chiefs as a "Reserve/Future" signee on February 14.
A versatile player who is listed as both a wide receiver and a running back on Kansas City's roster, Ealy signed with the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent last offseason. He was a three-time "Second-Team All-SEC" honoree during his time at Ole Miss, racking up 2,235 yards and 20 touchdowns on the ground during his three-year career – averaging 5.8 yards-per-attempt across 384 carries – while also contributing as a pass-catcher, hauling in 67 grabs for 545 yards and four touchdowns. Additionally, Ealy impressed in the return game, too. He averaged 25.4 yards-per-kick-return with two touchdowns in his career.
Ty Fryfogle
Fryfogle joined the Chiefs as a "Reserve/Future" signee on January 9. The 24-year-old wide receiver originally signed with the Dallas Cowboys after going undrafted last year, but he was waived following training camp with an injury designation (hamstring) and remained a free agent throughout the 2022 season.
The 6-foot-1, 204-pound Fryfogle played his college ball at Indiana, where he was the Big 10 "Receiver of the Year" in 2020 after catching 37 passes for 721 yards and seven touchdowns in eight starts. Fryfogle caught 46 passes for 512 yards and one score the following season.
Richie James
The Chiefs signed James as an unrestricted free agent earlier this offseason after the veteran wide receiver compiled a breakout season with the New York Giants in 2022. James – who checks in at 5-foot-9 and 185 pounds – set single-season career-bests in receptions (57), receiving yards (569) and receiving touchdowns (4) last season, tying for the team lead in catches while ranking second in receiving yards. For further context, he would have ranked third on the Chiefs in catches last season (behind only tight end Travis Kelce and wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster) and fourth in receiving yards (trailing Kelce, Smith-Schuster and wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling).
The 27-year-old wide receiver did the majority of his work over the middle of the field last season, hauling in 30 passes (or 53% of his total receptions) between the numbers and beyond the line of scrimmage. Specifically, 19 of those catches took place within nine yards of the snap. James was also sure-handed overall, dropping just three passes on 67 targets.
He is an experienced punt returner, too, as he tallied a team-leading 24 punt returns last season. He averaged 7.3 yards-per-return on those punts.
Cornell Powell
Powell signed with Kansas City as a "Reserve/Future" signee on February 15. The 25-year-old Powell originally joined the Chiefs as a fifth-round pick in the 2021 NFL Draft. A stalwart on the Chiefs' practice squad in each of the last two seasons, Powell earned a promotion to the active roster for three games in 2022. He recorded three offensive snaps and 28 special teams' snaps in those appearances.
Skyy Moore
Moore is entering his second season in Kansas City after catching 22 passes for 250 yards in 2022, but those statistics don't fully articulate his impact on the Chiefs' journey to a world championship. In fact, it was Moore's 29-yard punt return in the final seconds of the AFC Championship Game that set up kicker Harrison Butker's game-winning, 45-yard field goal that sent Kansas City to Super Bowl LVII. Moore then found the end zone for the first time in his career during the Chiefs' victory over Philadelphia, catching 4-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter.
It was a tremendous ending to Moore's rookie campaign, and it's something that new Wide Receivers' Coach Connor Embree is hoping the former second-round pick can build on this upcoming season.
"Skyy has been great. We put a lot on him last year. Usually when we get a receiver, we try to keep them at one position [because] it's easier to learn that way, but we threw a lot at him last year. He played every position – all three of them, the 'X, Zebra and Z' [spots]," Embree explained last month. "He came back in great shape. He looks stronger, he's a little bigger, and then he's just got that year under his belt. So, he's not that little puppy dog anymore. He kind of understands what's going on, [and] he understands the tempo we practice at and just how to be a pro, so he's been great."
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