The youthful secondary of the Kansas City Chiefs has garnered a lot of respect from veteran safety Justin Reid — so much so, in fact, that the expectations Reid has for the core of the secondary no longer include grace for rookies.
“First and foremost, I’m just going to go ahead and say it — we don’t have rookies anymore,” Reid stated. “They’ve had enough experience (and) they’ve had enough games under their belt. They’re first-year players still but that title, rookie, we really want to throw that out the window because of the experience and the snaps they have under their belt, the pelts they have on the wall and also just to encourage them to take just a little more ownership and leadership in continuing to grow and mature and be dominate.