JuJu Smith-Schuster didn't rejoin the Kansas City Chiefs until late August and was never projected to be one of KC's top pass catchers in 2024, but on Monday night, Smith-Schuster returned to form in prime time.
. On Monday night, the team's most recently signed wide receiver led the team in receiving yards. Veteran pass catcher JuJu Smith-Schuster,, Smith-Schuster's 130 receiving yards are his most in a game since January 10, 2021 — a 13-catch, 157-yard performance in a wild card loss as a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers. That game was 1,366 days before the almost-28-year-old Smith-Schuster put up 130 yards on Monday night.
After the game, Smith-Schuster's quarterback and head coach both had praise for how the veteran performed, even in spite of a goal line deflection that resulted in an interception. Andy Reid acknowledged the red zone mistake while lauding Smith-Schuster for his ability to perform when his number was called again later in the game.
"JuJu's a good football player," Reid said. "He's been a good football player for a long time. He had the one down in the end zone that got tipped, and he felt terrible about that. Then he comes back with two huge ones. He's a pro and does a great job with that." The man on the other end of the connection, quarterback Patrick Mahomes, leaned on his familiar receiver on Monday night, delivering eight targets to Smith-Schuster, second-most on the team behind Travis Kelce's 10. After the game, Mahomes explained why Smith-Schuster was able to hit the ground running despite joining the team in late August.
"He has a good feel for the entire concept of the play," Mahomes said. "So he knows how to get into the open spots, he has a good understanding of my timing, so some of those things, I can hit him early in some windows maybe that aren't necessarily taught, it's just learned over reps. I thought he did a good job today of just doing that, find those windows, beating man when they played man, and in zone, find the windows to get big catches.
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