{"id":998,"date":"2026-07-16T19:08:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/?p=998"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:08:03","slug":"chiefs-trade-pitch-unloads-1st-round-bust-on-bears-for-draft-asset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/?p=998","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs Trade Pitch Unloads 1st-Round Bust on Bears for Draft Asset"},"content":{"rendered":"

he\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0are unlikely to continue their relationship with pass-rusher\u00a0Felix Anudike-Uzomah\u00a0beyond this season and a trade in the coming weeks and months could afford the team some value back for the 2023 first-round bust.<\/p>\n

Moe Moton of Bleacher Report on Tuesday, July 14 suggested a deal in which the\u00a0Chiefs flip Anudike-Uzomah to the\u00a0Chicago Bears\u00a0in return for a late-round asset in the 2027\u00a0NFL\u00a0draft.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLast August, Kansas City placed Anudike-Uzomah on injured reserve with a hamstring injury, which sidelined him for the entire 2025 season. He\u2019s made minimal impact with the Chiefs, recording 41 tackles (eight for loss), three sacks and 19 pressures,\u201d\u00a0Moton wrote. \u201cYet Anudike-Uzomah showed brief promise during the 2024 campaign, playing 31 percent of the defensive snaps. Perhaps a restart with a new team that needs a pass-rusher would give him more opportunities to showcase his potential.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chiefs, Bears Deal for Felix Anudike-Uzomah Would Mirror Move Chicago Made Last Season<\/h2>\n
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Getty<\/span>Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Felix Anudike-Uzomah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The former Kansas State prospect is just 24 years old and has one season remaining on his\u00a0$12 million\u00a0rookie contract.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has already declined the fifth-year option on Anudike-Uzomah\u2019s deal and drafted\u00a0R Mason Thomas\u00a0in Round 2 back in April. Circumstances indicate the Chiefs will likely move in a different direction at the position come next offseason, so getting an asset of any kind in return for Anudike-Uzomah makes some sense, as now is their last best chance to do so.<\/p>\n

Chicago made a similar move at the mid-season trade deadline in 2025, shipping a sixth-round pick to the\u00a0Cleveland Browns\u00a0in return for a seventh-rounder and pass-rusher\u00a0Joe Tyron-Shoyinka.<\/p>\n

The former first-round pick of the\u00a0Tampa Bay Buccaneers\u00a0was a low-cost, potentially high-reward player. He battled fewer injury problems over his five-year career than Anudike-Uzomah has during his three years in the league and had a considerably larger sample size of games played because of it.<\/p>\n

Thus, Anudike-Uzomah makes more sense as fringe, one-year bet in Chicago given his potentially higher upside than the move the team actually made for Tyron-Shoyinka last season.<\/p>\n

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Bears May Be Content to Ride into Season With Austin Booker, Dayo Odeyingbo<\/h2>\n
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Getty<\/span>Defensive end Austin Booker of the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What might stand in the way of a such a deal between Chicago and Kansas City before the regular season is the Bears\u2019 apparent willingness to see how\u00a0Austin Booker\u00a0develops in Year 3 and how successful a healthy\u00a0Dayo Odeyingbo\u00a0can be after a season cut short by an Achilles tear during the middle of 2025.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is also relatively thin off the edge, though in better shape than the Bears with the aforementioned Thomas now in the building alongside\u00a0George Karlaftis. Defensive tackle\u00a0Chris Jones\u00a0is also a strong pass-rushing presence up the middle, which alleviates some of the Chiefs\u2019 need for pocket disruption from the outside.<\/p>\n

Still, Kansas City might think twice before dealing a former first-round pick in Anudike-Uzomah who carries a salary cap hit under $3.8 million in 2026 given the defense\u2019s obvious need at the position.<\/p>\n

Max Dible<\/strong>\u00a0covers the NFL, NBA and MLB for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns. He covered local and statewide news as a reporter for West Hawaii Today and served as news director for BigIslandNow.com and Pacific Media Group’s family of Big Island radio stations before joining Heavy.\u00a0More about Max Dible<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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