Chiefs coach Andy Reid has been known to eat a cheeseburger or two. But as Chiefs left tackle Josh Simmons talks about bulking up for this season, Reid doesn\u2019t want him doing it with cheeseburgers.<\/p>\n
Simmons told reporters this week that he weighs 285-290 pounds right now, and although he appears to be in great shape, he looks awfully lean by NFL offensive lineman standards. Simmons said he\u2019s going to try to get up to 300 pounds by training camp, and Reid wants him doing it the right way.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t want cheeseburger weight,\u201d Reid said. \u201cHe\u2019s extremely athletic, and he\u2019s gifted that way, so he\u2019s able to get away with some things because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The things Simmons gets away with include blocking 300-pound men without weighing 300 pounds himself, and Reid said he\u2019s not sure that Simmons even needs to get up to 300 pounds to do his job effectively.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s kind of a unique character because he\u2019s not a real big guy,\u201d Reid said. \u201cBut he\u2019s extremely strong and very athletic, so you always talk about leverage as a coach, and he does a good job with that, and he was able to function that way last year. He probably told you he\u2019s going to put on weight, we\u2019ll see. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s an absolute that has to take place. He looked pretty good out here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-5 Simmons weighed 317 pounds at last year\u2019s Scouting Combine before the Chiefs drafted him in the first round. He\u2019s lost significant weight since then, and he might be the lightest offensive tackle in the entire NFL right now: At 285 pounds he\u2019d be lighter than every single offensive tackle who played in the league last year, according to pro-football-reference.com.<\/p>\n
Simmons showed promise in his rookie year, but he missed nine games last season. The most important thing for the Chiefs is that he\u2019s healthy and ready to protect Patrick Mahomes\u2019 blind side, and they don\u2019t think he needs to add any cheeseburger weight to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chiefs coach Andy Reid has been known to eat a cheeseburger or two. But as Chiefs left tackle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-701689","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\/701689","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=701689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}