WATCH: New Chiefs LT Jawaan Taylor working on footwork in Florida
Man look at the footwork on @jawaan_taylor74 … @RiseandGrindOP y’all putting in some great work over there.. I Love it Fam…@Chiefs y’all getting a dancing Freak…Footwork go crazy 😜..👣🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/rOSHV1xeJw
— Coach Marlon (@marlonlew31) April 11, 2023
The offseason is in full swing with players for the Kansas City Chiefs off training on their own ahead of the start of the team’s offseason program next week. That includes some of the newest faces on the team, like DE Charles Omenihu and LT Jawaan Taylor. In fact, the team’s expected left tackle is getting some work in down in Florida so that he’s better prepared to play his new position this season.
Coach Marlon Lewis has been working on offensive line technique with Taylor since he was in grade school in Cocoa, Florida. Lewis took to Twitter and Instagram to share a recent clip of Taylor working out at Rise and Grind Training in Orange Park, Florida. You might remember Taylor’s training sizzle reel from this facility ahead of the 2023 NFL free agency period. He’s clearly been working hard out there lately.
Coach Lewis’ caption on Instagram should have fans pretty excited:
“Footwork impeccable,” he wrote. “Mahomes is in good hands.”
In the newest video, you can see Taylor holding a medicine ball and working on his footwork. He’s working specifically on techniques for playing on the left side of the offensive line, something that will be new to him in the NFL. It’s only a brief glimpse of what is to come, but his footwork appears a lot quicker than what Chiefs fans are used to seeing at the left tackle position with Orlando Brown Jr. playing that spot. It’ll be a refreshing stylistic change that could match what the team likes to do on offense a bit more closely.
