A year ago, LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier was widely regarded as a first-round draft prospect. So it\u2019s understandable if he was disappointed not to hear his name called until late in the seventh round, when the Chiefs took him with the 249th overall pick.<\/p>\n
But when Chiefs General Manager Brett Veach called Nussmeier to let him know where his NFL home would be, Veach told him there\u2019s no better place a quarterback can go than Kansas City.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know it\u2019s been a long day, but just know that you\u2019re going to head to the best quarterback room in the NFL here,\u201d Veach told Nussmeier, in video released by the Chiefs. \u201cWe\u2019re going to turn this pick in now and make you the newest member of the Kansas City Chiefs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nussmeier will get to work alongside Patrick Mahomes, as well as Chiefs backup quarterback Justin Fields, and get coached by Andy Reid and offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy. Bieniemy was UCLA\u2019s offensive coordinator in 2024, when Nussmeier led LSU to a 34-17 win over UCLA by throwing for 352 yards, with three touchdowns and no interceptions.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast time I saw you, I was on the opposite sideline at UCLA,\u201d Bieniemy told Nussmeier. \u201cYou had a pretty good game against us. I\u2019m very proud of you and looking forward to having this opportunity to work with you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nussmeier knows he\u2019s not going to a place where he\u2019ll have any opportunity to compete for the starting job, but he\u2019s going to a quarterback room where he\u2019ll learn a lot, and hope to eventually show, somewhere, that he\u2019s capable of being the NFL starting quarterback he was projected as being early in his career at LSU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year ago, LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier was widely regarded as a first-round draft prospect. So it\u2019s understandable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-613256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}