After Another Rough SNF Performance, All Eyes Are on Brett Veach to Make the Move Everyone’s Been Expecting.QQ
The Kansas City Chiefs may not be alerting any fans to a new trend that has managed to pop up under everyone’s noses in the last few weeks, but their inability to run the football with any degree of consistency or quality has been identified as one of the main reasons this team may struggle to repeat in the AFC.
The Chiefs are trying their hardest to win with Kareem Hunt and Isiah Pacheco, despite the many challenges those two bring to the table. Even their success against the Detroit Lions on Sunday Night Football can primarily be attributed to Patrick Mahomes being in one of his classic locked-in modes.
If Brett Veach is worth his salt as a general manager, he is likely hard at work trying anything and everything to ensure that Kansas City doesn’t roll into the second-half of the season with such an obvious and disqualifying deficiency.
Over the last two weeks, it’s hard to say anyone has been better at football than Carolina Panthers running back Rico Dowdle while filling in for the injured Chuba Hubbard. Veach and Panthers GM Dan Morgan could work a deal out, as it makes no sense to keep riding a Pacheco train that has long since run out of whatever fuel Pacheco trains run on.
Chiefs need to trade for Panthers RB Rico Dowdle
Dowdle has proven to be an average starter in this league with Dallas, and his recent breakout in Carolina suggests that with proper coaching and a good enough offensive line around him, there is some potential to be a primary ball-carrier once more.
Why would the Panthers trade him when they are riding a hot streak and Dowdle is playing the best ball of his career? Well, they did pay Chuba Hubbard to be a bell cow, and that likely will not change when he’s healthy. Carolina is not committed to Dowdle for much longer beyond this year.
Kansas City’s extreme lack of talent at the position could be what prompts them to possibly overpay for a running back when the trade market at this position is very thin at the moment. Dowdle is quicker than both Hunt and Pacheco, but he has enough muscle to be a quality betwen-the-tackles threat.
Dowdle in Kansas City’s offense should look night and day different compared to what it looks like now, at least on the ground. While the Chiefs can find a more earnest long-term replacement in the offseason, Dowdle as a short-term grab that can pack a punch in the right scheme simply makes too much sense.
