{"id":784866,"date":"2026-07-26T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784866\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T04:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:00:16","slug":"chiefs-rookie-peter-woods-is-comfortable-at-308-313-pounds-in-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784866\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs rookie Peter Woods is comfortable at 308 &#8211; 313 pounds in camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/arrowheadpride.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>\u2019 first practice of training camp consisted solely of rookies, quarterbacks and select veterans, as it will for the next two days before the full team gets together for practice on Wednesday, July 29th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After the first day of practice, rookie defensive lineman Peter Woods, the No. 29 pick in this year\u2019s draft, stood at the podium and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/1pciZk18rK8?si=cRMS9UN8xiEMngD7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">answered questions from reporters<\/a>. He was excited for camp to get rolling, and talked about how he felt physically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI\u2019m really comfortable,\u201d Woods said. \u201cMy weight is like 308 &#8211; 313 [pounds]; I want to try to play around 308, so I\u2019m there; I\u2019m ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cCamp sweat will get some more off of me,\u201d Woods acknowledged. \u201cSo I just have to balance that, make sure I\u2019m eating my meals, stuff like that, so I\u2019m really excited about that and being able to find where my niche is in playing weight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">When asked about what he can do at that size, an increase in weight from his final year at Clemson, where he questionably played at a sub-300 weight, Woods listed off some enticing keywords.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cSpeed. Quickness. Acceleration. Mismatch. So I\u2019m really excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Woods had great energy at the podium on Saturday, glowing with anticipation for the rest of the practices in St. Joe. He will have a lot of eyes on him, especially now that last year\u2019s second-round pick at defensive tackle Omarr Norman-Lott will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrowheadpride.com\/kansas-city-chiefs-news\/205925\/chiefs-officially-place-2-players-on-the-pup-list\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">start camp on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Woods\u2019 size and athletic profile make him an option to play multiple spots on the defensive front, from the A-gap or nose tackle to the 3-technique position defensive tackle Chris Jones has long played under defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Look for No. 99 on the Chiefs\u2019 defensive line this preseason, checking out the movement ability he has at roughly 310 pounds compared to Jones (listed at 310 pounds) and Khyiris Tonga (listed at 335 pounds).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 first practice of training camp consisted solely of rookies, quarterbacks and select veterans, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[15977,24538,349,99],"class_list":["post-784866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-training-camp","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784866","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=784866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}