Arrowhead Addict Article on Chiefs WR battle
 

The Kansas City Chiefs will have an interesting battle developing at wide receiver behind Tyreek Hill and Sammy Watkins.
Chris Conley or DeMarcus Robinson.

Yes, there are others. The Kansas City Chiefs have several wide receivers with obvious potential besides the obvious starting pair of Tyreek Hill and Sammy Watkins. De’Anthony Thomas is back for a year. Byron Pringle is in camp. The Chiefs drafted Jehu Chesson just one year ago in the fourth round, trading up for the former Michigan receiver just one round after Kareem Hunt. There’s also Gehrig Dieter, Marcus Kemp, Jordan Smallwood, Daniel Braverman and Elijah Marks.


But really, the spot for a third receiver at this point for the Chiefs comes down to Conley and Robinson.

A recent column at NFL.com attempting to project starters for each team recently gave Robinson the nod as the Chiefs third receiver. It was an interesting notice since Conley is typically given the nod as the third WR on the roster. But Patrick Mahomes’ had a (seemingly) nice connection with Robinson in the season finale at Denver, and it’s easy to make some projections.

Rewind one year ago and Conley was in full control of a starting wide receiver spot. That’s before he was lost for the season due to injury coming into the last season of his contract. Now the former third rounder seems like he could be on the outside looking in with more to prove than most would have believed coming into the 2017 season.

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Robinson on the other hand showed up late for the Chiefs including a nice effort in the unfortunate playoff loss to the Tennessee Titans. He had four catches on four targets for 57 receiving yards and 1 touchdowns. Including his four catch effort (on 10 targets) from Mahomes in the season finale and it becomes clear that Robinson was earning some impressive reps at season’s end for the Chiefs.

This is a good problem for the Chiefs to have. Conley is very bright, motivated and hard working. He’s also an incredible athlete who has yet to be truly featured in the Chiefs offense that has too many other mouths to feed. It’s clearly a mistake to forget about Conley and believe Robinson has anything sewn up, because if Conley is truly healthy, he’s a serious talent to be used with Mahomes under center.

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Robinson meshes with Mahomes. Conley doesn't.

conley off an achiles in his final year doesn't stand a chance against robinson who has rapport and flashed despite alex not trusting him.

Put Conley on the field with Phomes and see what happens - never sleep on Conley.

I'd fervently believe that if Robinson hadn't been a Drop-O-Matic during the Mahomes regular season game. I hope that was just a weird outlier game for him.

I don't think that conley couldn't mesh but he never had the explosion on the field that his numbers suggested. I just cant see him off the injury securing the number 3 spot. It took dj half a season to look back to form after his Achilles. and his job was not to cut and fool DBs.

Conley has a chance to shine, given his athletic ability. We'll see. I'm actually a fan of Robinson. I think he's got some talent and good repertoire with Mahomes.

Noticeably, Mahomes seemed to connect a bit with Robinson in the preseason last year. Chemistry, or coincidence.

Mahomes was 4/10 to Robinson and 10/11 to Wilson vs Denver but Robinson was the one Mahomes connected with? If everyone believes Berry will be ready to go after his Achilles why is everyone doubting Conley's recovery from an Achilles injury when their injuries were only 4 weeks apart?

i think mahomes is smart enough, and young enough, to try and make the lesser star more bright. he knows he can go to the other hot dogs on the offense. he just doesn't quit on the fourth receiver.

where as the previous quarterback would only focus on the guys that he knew made him better :D

Conley's younger than DJ

Conley and Robinson both have the chance to succeed with Mahomes throwing the ball. Pat will survey the field until he finds a receiver that he can make a connection with. As long as Conley and Robinson can get open then they both have a chance to make some noise in this offense. Plus they will be working against number 3 and 4 defensive backs. Mahomes doesn't look at the name on the jersey of his receiver, he just picks a good option and finds a way to get the ball to him. If he can make a star out of Albert Wilson then Conley and Robinson will have lots of opportunities to shine.

Conley seems to thrive on the busted play. He has great hands and is good at catching the ball out of bounds dragging his toes. He did not seem to do as well during the design portion of the play. I don't know if that is ability or if it is the design of the play.

He and Wilson were great complements to each other. Wilson was good at finding a hole In the zone on rollouts and scrambles while Conley was deadly along the sideline. When Conley and Wilson both went down last year, no one was left that was good at the scramble drill.

I don't think Robinson's hands are as good as Conley's. But the big question is will Conley come back healthy or not?

All part of what makes training camp entertaining.

I'm not sure about this season, but in the coming decade, Mahomes is going to become the kind of QB that can make any WR look great. I'm not saying he will become Brady, but he will be skilled enough to get the ball to the guy at will.