Kansas City Chiefs: DeShone Kizer should not be Chiefs backup

The Kansas City Chiefs are in need of a backup quarterback and a recent rumor has suggested that DeShone Kizer could become that guy in Kansas City.

Backup quarterback maybe a need for the Kansas City Chiefs, but it’s not a gaping hole. Patrick Mahomes is the unquestioned starting quarterback and leader of the team. At 6’2 and 230 pounds he’s a big quarterback with little injury history. With that said, a backup should be looked at simply as another coach and scout team player.

This means it would not be smart of the Chiefs to go sign an expensive free agent or trade valuable assets to fill the backup quarterback position. In the case of adding former second round pick DeShone Kizer, it would take the trade for assets, as he’s only going into year two of his rookie four-year contract.

It probably wouldn’t take a major trade seeing as how Kizer is coming off a rookie season in which he went 0-15 and threw just 11 touchdowns to 22 interceptions. More than likely, the trade would require a late round draft pick as compensation so it wouldn’t be overly expensive for a quarterback who was the first rookie signal caller to play in regular season action.

If I was an NFL general manager, I wouldn’t go anywhere near Kizer.

Even at that price Kizer is not a player the Chiefs should touch. In 15 games he only threw for 2,894 yards with a poor completion percentage of 53%. If those numbers aren’t depressing enough, he only threw 11 touchdowns to 22 interceptions and lost six fumbles. He accounted for more turnovers than any other player in the league.

I don’t see anything about those stats and what he did on the field as someone I would want on the Chiefs in any role. The backup quarterback for the Chiefs this season needs to be nothing more than an extra set of eyes on the coaching staff. Nothing about Kizer’s play last season says anyone should trust what he sees with his eyes.