Giants $12 million reliable starter predicted to dump New York in favor of Chiefs

It’s a question that’s both simple and impossible to answer: How are the Kansas City Chiefs 9-0?

Despite injuries, inconsistency, and constantly staring down defeat, the Chiefs have managed their best start to a season since 2013, before Patrick Mahomes even enrolled in college. And they’ve done so despite their least formidable group of receivers in at least a decade.

Rashee Rice and Hollywood Brown were both lost for the season, prompting the Chiefs to acquire aging legend DeAndre Hopkins at the trade deadline. But with Hopkins set to hit free agency, the Chiefs could look elsewhere for more insurance at wideout this spring.

Enter Darius Slayton, a six-year veteran who has spent his entire career on awful New York Giants teams. Bleacher Report’s NFL Scouting Department recently predicted that Slayton would sign with the Chiefs in free agency.

“Going from Daniel Jones at quarterback to Patrick Mahomes is a move that any wide receiver would dream about. The fact that Darius Slayton has spent the entirety of his six-year career to this point with the Giants would only make the move even sweeter for him. Slayton has become an underrated receiver whose deep speed has carved out a role every year in New York,” the authors said.

“That speed, combined with Xavier Worthy and Andy Reid’s scheming, would become an even bigger asset in Kansas City. DeAndre Hopkins is a nice addition, but he’s still on the wrong side of 30. Slayton would be a younger addition to a receiver crew that lacks depth right now.”

Slayton, 27, has played in 85 games with the Giants, including 60 starts. He has yet to eclipse 800 receiving yards in a single season, but has over 700 in four of his five tries so far. This year, he is at 469 yards through nine games played.

Perhaps Slayton doesn’t have the ceiling to become a true number-one in even the best of situations, but he could be a very valuable number-two option for Mahomes. Worthy’s uneven first year and Rice’s impending legal troubles make finding a stable veteran all the more crucial.