{"id":657831,"date":"2026-05-22T05:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657831\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:05:11","slug":"chiefs-sign-2026-second-round-pick-r-mason-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657831\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs sign 2026 second-round pick R Mason Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One more member of the Chiefs\u2019 2026 draft class has put pen to paper.<\/p>\n<p>According to the league\u2019s daily transaction wire, second-round pick R Mason Thomas signed his rookie contract on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, who was selected at No. 40 overall in April, played his college ball at Oklahoma. He was a first-team All-SEC selection in 2025, having registered 6.5 sacks with 9.5 tackles for loss in 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>In all, Thomas registered 25.5 tackles for loss with 17.0 sacks in his college career.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce called Thomas a \u201cfreak of nature,\u201d adding he can\u2019t wait to see how Thomas gets after quarterbacks as a pro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One more member of the Chiefs\u2019 2026 draft class has put pen to paper. According to the league\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-657831","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\/657831","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=657831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}