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Kansas City Chiefs tight end Robert Tonyan hurdles Seattle Seahawks cornerback Damarion Williams during the second half on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Robert Tonyan was one of the best tight ends in the NFL in 2020, recording 586 receiving yards and 11 touchdowns for the Green Bay Packers. Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy, who was then the head coach of the Chicago Bears, saw that talent twice a year when the NFC rivals squared it off. “I remember when Bobby was in Green Bay,” Nagy said. “He’s an excellent tight end.” But in the next half decade since his Packers apex, Tonyan, who is now 31, suffered multiple injuries, including a torn ACL in 2021, and bounced around with the Bears, Minnesota Vikings — and now with the Chiefs after signing a one-year, $1.255 million contract in March, following a stint on the team’s practice squad last year. He looks poised to resuscitate his career in Kansas City. “This guy has been productive in the league,” Chiefs head coach Andy Reid said. “He gets it.” In both of the Chiefs’ preseason games, he has led the team in receiving yards. Moreover, he leads all Chiefs rushers or receivers in yards from scrimmage with 90. On Friday night against the Seattle Seahawks, Tonyan had five catches for 41 yards and scored the Chiefs’ first and only offensive touchdown. On 3rd and goal from the one-yard line, he went in motion before finding open space in the back of the end zone for the scrambling Gardner Minshew. And he caught back-to-back passes on the third and fourth plays of the second half, totaling 28 yards, even hurdling Seahawks cornerback Damarion Williams on the latter. The week before in Tonyan’s…

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