Alliance of American Football, Week 2: Chiefs players to watch

The Alliance of American Soccer is kicking off its 2nd week and there are some previous Kansas City Chiefs players that you need to be rooting for.

The initial week for the Alliance of American Soccer went greater than most individuals would have expected. The Tv set rankings for the AAF’s initial week matched the NBA, anything that is no little feat when you look at how minimal marketing and advertising was finished leading up to the inaugural weekend.

Followers of the Kansas City Chiefs need to be keeping keep track of of when the games are due to the fact there are previous Chiefs players across all eight groups in the AAF suitable now. You can cheer for any workforce and nonetheless be supporting a acquainted experience. Some of these previous players performed spectacularly in their initial week.

Let’s go forward and acquire a look at which Chiefs players we need to be trying to enjoy this weekend.

Akeem Hunt, RB, Orlando Apollos

Final time whenever you listened to the identify Hunt most individuals believed you had been referring to previous Chief Kareem Hunt. There was one more Hunt on the workforce though who largely returned kickoffs for Kansas City. His identify was Akeem Hunt, and he is currently playing for the Orlando Apollos.

In his initial week, he was capable to lead the overall league in hurrying with 73 yards on only 10 carries. Remaining capable to break off 7.3 yards for each have is a really hard thing to do, and it will be attention-grabbing to see if he can repeat that functionality when the Apollos can take on the San Antonio Commanders this week.

On the other side of the ball for the Apollos, we have cornerback Keith Reaser, who seems like he may possibly be finding the exercise he desires to make the leap again the NFL future time.  Reaser played in two games for the Chiefs, the initial of which was Week 17 of the 2017 season—or as most individuals bear in mind it, Patrick Mahomes’ initial start out. He stood out against the Denver Broncos, racking up 4 tackles, one particular sack, and two passes defended. Reaser also played against the Tennessee Titans in the Wild card game of the same calendar year. His biggest emphasize in the game was the fumble he compelled that the Chiefs had been capable to recover inside of the Titans 30-garden line.

Reaser was not able to keep balanced in 2018 and was sooner or later introduced with an personal injury settlement right before the commencing of the time. With all that creation in his two games with Kansas City, it need to come as no surprise that he graded out as one particular of the finest players in the AAF for each Professional Soccer Focus past week. 

Kansas City beloved to be explosive this past calendar year, and one particular of their previous players is getting that same mentality into the AAF. Rashad Ross has played for a lot of NFL groups, and everybody could see why this past Sunday. Ross was just one particular of two broad receivers to move the century mark about the 4 games from past week, and he also capable to haul in two touchdowns. The link concerning Ross and Arizona Hotshots quarterback John Wolford was obvious. Ross was capable to make the PFF workforce of the week following his terrific functionality and will be on the lookout to repeat against the Memphis Express this Saturday.