KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Two of the players recently signed by the Kansas City Chiefs didn’t play football in college. One is linebacker Efe Obada, whose first exposure to football came as a member of the London Warriors, a British team that plays in a local American football league.
The other is linebacker Tautvydas Kieras, a native of Lithuania who threw the discus at Mississippi State but didn’t play football.
It’s a minor miracle if either Obada or Kieras ever becomes a productive player for the Chiefs. The lack of football backgrounds compared to their competition will be difficult for either to overcome, particularly in the near term.