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last season’s surgery Khalen Saunders Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys , and is sold on those playing beside him" Kansas City Chiefs NewsLaurent Duvernay-Tardif is ready to play — with Reiter and Wylie beside himNew,6commentsThe Chiefs right guard is fully recovered from last season’s surgery, and is sold on those playing beside himCDTOne of the many questions Kansas City Chiefs fans have been asking since the end of the 2018 season is which players would start at left guard and center in the coming season.In recent weeks, we’ve had indications that last season’s Mack Lee Hill award winner, Andrew Wylie, was the man to beat at left guard, and Austin Reiter had the inside track to become the starting center.Both players came to the Chiefs as unheralded players just last season but shined when the offensive line was decimated by injuries.There is still a long way to go.A lot can happen between now and the opening kickoff in Jacksonville on September 8.But as far as starting right guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is concerned, the center of the Chiefs offensive line is coming along very well with Reiter and Wylie.”Andrew Wylie is a tremendous athlete,” Duvernay-Tardif told the press after the first day of mandatory minicamp on Tuesday. “He’s bringing good energy and good chemistry to the group. It’s been really nice to see him grow as a player.”Before the beginning of OTAs, Duvernay-Tardif had not yet had much opportunity to play with Reiter, but he’s getting to know him now.”I never had the chance to play with Austin, so we’re kind of building that chemistry right now — building that footwork to make sure that we can share space and be at the right spot in the right moment Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys 2019 , This is great, great work — specifically for the offensive line.”I think that if you learn the strengths and weaknesses of everybody, you kind of go from there building that chemistry and that relationship with all the players — and being able to communicate,” he continued. ”What’s great with Austin is that you can go talk to him in between plays and drives and ask him, “OK, how would you approach this?’ or ‘What would you have done differently?’ or ‘What can I do better to make you better?’ This is great, and I think we’re going to grow as a middle three with Andrew and Austin and myself in the middle.”But Duvernay-Tardif understands that until the final roster is decided upon, it’s all about competition.“I think what we want as a unit is the best guys out there — to create that competition — so we can all get better,” he said. “I think that’s what’s happening right now. It’s been fun so far. We all know what’s at stake, but we’re all having fun together, which is great.”Denny Medley-USA TODAY SportsLast season wasn’t much fun for Duvernay-Tardif, who suffered a fractured fibula in the fifth week of the season and spent the rest of the year on injured reserve.The Chiefs had hopes that he would be ready to return in the playoffs Khalen Saunders Jersey Cheap , but it just wasn’t to be.”It was tough,” he said. “When I had surgery, they told me [it would be] anywhere from 8-12 weeks. I knew it was going to be tight. I gave everything — pushing the limit every day to try to come back. I was short a little bit. I think I was activated during the Seattle week, and it took me a little too long to get back in shape.”Of course, he was disappointed that his rehabilitation had taken too long, but he understood that it was the right decision for the team.”You’re a competitor, so you want to play — contribute to the team and help. I struggled a little bit not being able to go on the field, but at the same time, I understand coach’s decision.”The NFL’s only player who is also a doctor laughed out loud when he was reminded by a reporter that physicians tend to make poor patients.”It was first experience being on the other side of the patient-physician relationship,” he said. ”Even though it’s kind of hard, I think I learned a lot. I think I’m going to be a be a better physician because of that. You learn how to cope with the psychological challenge of being injured. I think I’m going to grow as a human and as a physician.”His medical career is still on track — although the NFL is more of a distraction than most young doctors have.”Now that I’ve graduated, I still have residency to go through Khalen Saunders Jersey Womens ,” he told the press. “I want to do emergency medicine. But it was kind of in a gray zone, because I didn’t start the official program. So I did a few shifts — a night shift — in the community hospital in order to stay in touch with my knowledge and try to stay up to date. But I didn’t didn’t start my residency per se. That’s my plan for next offseason.”Denny Medley-USA TODAY SportsIn the meantime, he’s enjoying getting back into the routine of being an NFL offensive lineman. And being impressed by Patrick Mahomes.”I think Pat showed us last year that he was really athletic and [had] really good vision of the game and [had] really good arm strength and precision,” he said. “Now this year. what’s really impressed me is his ability to be an awesome leader. Right from the get-go, he was like, ‘OK, we’re going to get this thing this year.’ Being able to rally everybody behind him and lead by example — that’s what you really want to see in a quarterback. I think for us as offensive linemen, you want to protect him — to strain your gut to finish every play for a guy like that.” SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers opened the new league year Wednesday by acquiring the defensive playmaker the team was sorely lacking in edge rusher Dee Ford.The 49ers are sending a 2020 second-round pick to the Kansas City Chiefs for Ford and are giving him a five-year, $87.5 million contract, according to his agent.The Chiefs had placed the franchise tag on Ford after he had a career-high 13 sacks last season and led the NFL with seven forced fumbles. But they had questions about how he’d fit in new coordinator Steve Spagnuolo’s defense and decided to trade him instead of paying him $15.4 million for this season.Ford was picked in the first round by Kansas City in 2014 but went through some growing pains as he adapted to life in the NFL and has an injury history that is cause for concern. He had 17 1/2 sacks his first four seasons and was limited to just six games in 2017 because of a back injury.But he emerged as a star this past season as a key part of a much-maligned defense that had trouble keeping up with an offense that propelled Kansas City to the AFC championship game. But his offside penalty late in that game against New England negated an interception that could have sealed a victory. The Patriots scored a TD on that drive and won the game in overtime.Ford led all edge rushers with 84 total quarterback pressures last season, according to Pro Football Focus Khalen Saunders white jersey , to go with the sacks and forced fumbles and is exactly the kind of playmaker the 49ers lacked on defense this past season.San Francisco set an NFL record for futility with just seven takeaways, including a record-low two interceptions, as a lack of an edge rusher played a big role in a 4-12 season.“You have to have a guy who can close out games, close out halves,” general manager John Lynch said at the combine when talking about the need for better pass rushers. “When you have them, they can be a difference-maker.”The 49ers haven’t had an edge rusher reach double-digits in sacks since Aldon Smith had 19 1/2 in 2012 and have the fifth-fewest overall sacks in the NFL the past six seasons. DeForest Buckner led the team with 12 sacks this past season, mostly from an interior spot.100<button class="view-gallery">View Gallery</button> Gallery:View from the sidelines: NFL cheerleaders 2018Raj Mehta-USA TODAY Sports | Raj Mehta