When the Kansas City Chiefs released receiver Jeremy Maclin on June 2, it was one of the more surprising transactions of the 2017 offseason. There was enough tape, despite his disappointing, injury-plagued 2016 season, to indicate that this was a one-year aberration for Maclin, and in no way indicated that he was on the decline.
Maclin caught just 44 passes for 536 yards and two touchdowns in 12 games last season, but he had been one of the league’s more productive targets in the previous two seasons for both the Chiefs in 2015 and the Eagles in 2014.