Just like that, the Kansas City Chiefs are already two games into their 2025-26 preseason slate. The reigning AFC champions fell to the Seattle Seahawks on Friday night, with multiple players flashing both good and bad.
There may not be a greater example of that roller coaster than wide receiver Skyy Moore. He experienced some of the lowest lows of his football career in Seattle, yet he also rose above the noise in the end.
When head coach Andy Reid spoke to the media following the game, Moore’s performance was something he touched on.
Andy Reid ‘Proud’ of Skyy Moore for Responding to Adversity vs. Seahawks
Reid tipped his cap to Moore, who dropped a pair of passes and also muffed a kickoff return. An 88-yard punt return late in the fourth quarter helped salvage a rough night for the Chiefs wideout, at least in the eyes of his head coach.
“Yeah, listen, he had a couple drops,” Reid said. “That’s not like him. He’s a lot better than that. He had the three kind of bobbles and drops in special teams and with throws, then he came back with a big play. I’m proud of him for that. It wasn’t his best night up to that point.”
In all, Moore finished with those two targets but no receptions. He remains without a reception this preseason — he failed to haul in his lone pass last week against the Arizona Cardinals — despite logging 46 combined snaps. He has two punt returns for 94 yards and one kickoff bring-back for 27 yards.
To say the Moore pick hasn’t worked out for the Chiefs would be an understatement. Since being picked 54th overall in the 2022 NFL Draft, he’s failed to showcase any progression on the field. After hauling in 22 passes for 250 yards as a rookie, those numbers declined to 21 and 244, respectively, in 2023. Last regular season, he played in six games but had no catches on a trio of targets. Injuries and inconsistency have plagued Moore throughout his Kansas City tenure.
In fact, Moore hasn’t registered a reception in a real game since December of 2023. That’d led many fans to clamor for his release. With roster cuts approaching, it remains to be seen whether the aforementioned punt return was enough to keep the fourth-year man around.
Updated Look at Chiefs’ Wide Receiver Room With Week 1 Approaching
Much of Moore’s outlook to make the team could depend on things out of his control. It’s a numbers game in the Chiefs’ wide receiver room. At the top, the trio of Rashee Rice, Marquise “Hollywood” Brown and Xavier Worthy isn’t going away. Rice is now eligible to play in the team’s first handful of games before a disciplinary hearing with the league. Unless that changes, Kansas City won’t have to put him on the reserve/suspended list to open the year.
Behind those three, veteran JuJu Smith-Schuster is a trusted piece. Rookie Jalen Royals continues to make plays with the ball in his hands; he’s the Chiefs’ No. 5 wideout, for all intents and purposes. The last spot or two on the wideout depth chart comes down to Moore, Tyquan Thornton, Nikko Remigio and Jason Brownlee.
Thornton is a training camp darling who went just four picks before Moore in the 2022 NFL Draft. Remigio, while not standing out during the preseason, is a favorite of special teams coordinator Dave Toub. Brownlee had a touchdown catch in the preseason opener. Reid has historically been open to keeping seven receivers on the roster, but there’s a world where the last two are Thornton and Remigio. Heck, that seems to be the far more likely scenario.
The deck is stacked against Moore, partially by his own doing. With that said, he responded to adversity in a major way by showing some resilience on Friday with Reid watching.
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