With plenty to address heading into 2025, it was the passing game that drew the focus of ESPN’s Chiefs reporter Nate Taylor. He labeled wide receiver Rashee Rice as the “biggest winner” of day one of training camp because of his visible connection with quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

But Rice will be a full participant in training camp, Reid said, despite the two third-degree felonies that resulted in five years of deferred probation and 30 days in jail.