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Mansoor Delane

Rookie

Sixth pick, first camp, and learning to dial himself back

The hardest thing about getting to the top of the draft board is that nobody warned you the most dangerous thing in your first professional training camp might be you.

Mansoor Delane arrived at the Kansas City Chiefs' camp as the sixth overall pick in the NFL Draft — a selection that tells you everything about how much the franchise believes in him. But Delane is candid about something most rookies keep to themselves: his natural aggression, the very quality that made scouts fall for him, is something he now has to manage instead of just unleash.

He has said as much himself. It is difficult, he has acknowledged, to keep that instinct in check when every competitive cell in your body is telling you to go.

That tension — between what made you great and what will make you a professional — is what his first camp is actually about. The Chiefs are not asking Delane to become a different player. They are asking him to become a complete one. That is a longer, quieter project than any draft night moment.

How he figures that out in the next few months matters. The team bet a top-ten pick on the answer being a good one.

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