He also found himself close to making a handful of other plays in coverage.

3. The running backs were showing their ability out of the backfield

While a good portion of the practice was running pretty slowly as the players are just sinking their teeth into the playbook for the first time, the one takeaway from the quarterbacks throwing a lot of checkdowns was that we got to see the hands of the running backs catching the ball out of the backfield.

Utah State's Darwin Thompson—the Chiefs' fifth-round pick—displayed the ability that people have come to know about the 5-foot-8, 198-pound playmaker in the passing game. Another running back—Marcus Marshall out of James Madison, who is attending on a tryout basis—showed some ability in the passing game as well.