{"id":826309,"date":"2026-08-26T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826309\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:00:20","slug":"chiefs-to-acquire-guard-joshua-ezeudu-via-trade-with-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826309\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs to acquire guard Joshua Ezeudu via trade with Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Throughout two preseason contests, it would be an understatement to say that the <a href=\"https:\/\/arrowheadpride.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>\u2019 backup offensive linemen have underwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, the Chiefs are sending a 2028 seventh-round pick to the <a href=\"https:\/\/bigblueview.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Giants<\/a> in return for guard Joshua Ezeudu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Giants selected Ezeudu in the third round (67th overall) of the 2022 NFL Draft. The 6-foot-4, 310-pound North Carolina product has appeared in 33 games over his first three seasons in New York, with ten starts. He has played at both left guard and left tackle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ezeudu did not play in 2025 due to a calf injury. He re-signed with the Giants in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Kansas City will need to make a corresponding move to put Ezeudu on the 90-man roster. The Chiefs currently have 15 offensive linemen on their active roster ahead of Sunday\u2019s mandatory cutdown to 53 players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Editor\u2019s Note: Shoutout to Jared for getting this news out while Arrowhead Pride\u2019s site manager was passed out on the couch by 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I just wanted to add further context on Ezeudu: he has lined up at left tackle for 402 regular-season snaps, and left guard for 317 regular-season snaps, according to Pro Football Focus. In his most recent active seasons, 2024 and 2023, he was primarily a left tackle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Over four seasons at North Carolina, Ezeudu played left guard for 1,247 snaps, left tackle for 508 snaps and right tackle for 171. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Throughout two preseason contests, it would be an understatement to say that the Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 backup offensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[15977,349,99],"class_list":["post-826309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826309","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=826309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}