{"id":45863,"date":"2025-05-03T09:32:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=45863"},"modified":"2025-05-03T09:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:32:56","slug":"breaking-the-kansas-city-chiefs-2025-rookie-class-has-made-a-strong-impression-as-one-of-the-youngest-rosters-in-the-entire-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=45863","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: The Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 2025 rookie class has made a strong impression as one of the youngest rosters in the entire NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 front office has an excellent track record of finding undervalued talent from the college ranks and may have assembled their best rookie class in years during the 2025 NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>While it remains to be seen how Kansas City\u2019s rookies will fare next season, Chiefs general manager Brett Veach set his team up for success by making savvy selections on all three days of the draft last week.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sports Data Analyst Daniel Griffis of\u00a0Action News Jax, Kansas City\u2019s 2025 rookie class is among the youngest in the NFL, with an average age of 22.14 years old.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/05\/02\/SCHF\/83419111007-2188804921.jpg?crop=3799,2137,x0,y0&amp;width=660&amp;height=371&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"2025 NFL draft: Chiefs' rookie class among youngest in NFL\" \/><\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"X Embed\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadTwitter\" data-v-id=\"1917959741080301616\"><\/aside>\n<p>Age isn\u2019t necessarily an indicator of value or future success, but it may prove to be advantageous for the Chiefs to select younger prospects, given that Kansas City\u2019s coaching staff generally tends to keep rookies on the sidelines in favor of veteran talent.<\/p>\n<p>With their talented crop of first-year players, the Chiefs are fully reloaded for an attempt to secure a spot in Super Bowl LX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 front office has an excellent track record of finding undervalued talent from the college ranks and may have assembled their best rookie class&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - 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