Chiefs Offseason Workouts Preview: Checking Out the Cornerbacks

The Chiefs are hoping that a revamped secondary this year, which obviously includes All-Pro safety Eric Berry coming back from a season-ending injury suffered in Week 1 of last year, fits in well with the other moves they’ve made around the defense to improve a group that had been one of the best in the league since 2013.
But last year specifically, the Chiefs ranked 15thin the league, allowing an average of 21.2 points per game.
Fuller ranked as one of the five best cornerbacks in the league last year, according to Pro Football Focus (overall coverage grade).
Reid mentioned Fuller will most-likely line up outside in their base defense but will slide inside in nickel and sub situations.
Last year, the Chiefs were in their sub defense nearly 75 percent of the time, so Fuller will spend a lot of time inside, where he’s been playing at an elite level.
He missed most of last season with a foot injury, which led to his release by the Raiders just a year after they signed him to a lucrative multi-year contract extension following his breakout 2015 campaign.
And according to Veach, both Keith Reaser and Will Redmond are young guys to keep an eye on this offseason as well.
“People don’t really talk about (those guys),” Veach explained in a pre-draft press conference, “but [Redmond] was a mid-round pick by the 49ers coming off an injury, and Reaser was a guy we liked.
I think he was also coming off an injury out of Florida Atlantic a few years back.
A handful of other young cornerbacks flashed during rookie minicamp as well, including college free agents Arrion Springs (Oregon) and D’Montre Wade (Murray State), and then both Step Durham (Georgia Tech) and Malik Reaves (Villanova) were tryout guys who signed after making plays throughout the three-day minicamp.