{"id":912691,"date":"2026-10-01T21:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/912691\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T21:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:38:30","slug":"ot-kahlil-benson-earns-nfl-offensive-rookie-of-the-month-honors-for-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/912691\/","title":{"rendered":"OT Kahlil Benson Earns NFL \u201cOffensive Rookie of the Month\u201d Honors for September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kahlil Benson arrived at One Arrowhead Drive in the spring for a tryout with no guarantees beyond Rookie Minicamp weekend. Four months later, Benson is being recognized as one of the top rookies in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Benson was named the NFL &#8220;Offensive Rookie of the Month&#8221; for September on Thursday after starting each of the Chiefs&#8217; three games at left tackle. Benson allowed just three pressures in each of those games, and for the year, the former Indiana University standout has yet to yield a sack.<\/p>\n<p>The rookie offensive tackle is the first member of the Chiefs to earn a &#8220;Rookie of the Month&#8221; award since linebacker Nick Bolton did so in 2021 (October), and he&#8217;s the first offensive player to win the award since tailback Kareem Hunt in 2017 (December).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kahlil Benson arrived at One Arrowhead Drive in the spring for a tryout with no guarantees beyond Rookie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[29048,64,63,5386,596,106958,13521,1240,593,6672,6584,85,7508,106960,106959,106961,14068],"class_list":["post-912691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-andy-reid","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chiefs","tag-football","tag-geha-field-at-arrowhead-stadium","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-football","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-sports","tag-super-bowl","tag-super-bowl-iv","tag-super-bowl-liv","tag-super-bowl-lvii","tag-travis-kelce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}