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Running back Breece Hall of the New York Jets.
The Kansas City Chiefs don’t have to make a ton of moves ahead of the NFL deadline, but they have played their way back into the Super Bowl conversation, which makes them candidates for spending big in the week to come.
Kansas City has issues on the defensive line, both at tackle and on the edge. It’s also possible that injuries and protracted absences along the offensive line could motivate the Chiefs to look at adding a lineman there before November 4.
“The Chiefs have a need on the edge, but a bigger need might be an upgrade on Derrick Nnadi, who is last among qualifying defensive tackles with a 13.2% run stop win rate,” Brain Schatz of ESPN wrote Wednesday, October 29. “He also has a 0% pass rush win rate, though he plays only a handful of clear pass-play snaps per game.”
However, it is the running back position that Brad Gagnon of Bleacher Report believes Kansas City will upgrade, specifically by making a deal with the New York Jets for Breece Hall.
“Hall is a pending free agent and the Jets probably have bigger fish to fry this offseason, while the Chiefs are not getting as much as they’d probably like out of their offensive backfield,” Gagnon wrote Wednesday. “Hall yields the Jets a late-round pick and becomes a cog in a backfield that also contains Isiah Pacheco and Kareem Hunt, who takes a sizable back seat.”
Jets Have Minimal Incentive to Keep Breece Hall Beyond NFL Trade Deadline
GettyRunning back Breece Hall of the New York Jets.
Hall, a second-round pick in 2022 who is still just 24 years old, is playing in the final year of his $9 million rookie deal. However, his market value projection heading into free agency is nearly $10.5 million annually over a new four-year contract ($42 million total).
New York has two running backs in Braelon Allen and Isaiah Davis, both of whom they drafted in 2024 and who will play on rookie contracts through 2027. As such, Hall is unlikely to return to the 1-7 squad that became the last NFL team to earn a win in 2025 — which didn’t happen until last weekend — and has serious questions across the roster as it tries to rebuild toward its first winning campaign since 2015.
Jets owner Woody Johnson threw quarterback Justin Fields under the bus last week, so while Fields ended up starting and playing adequately against the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 8, the team is almost certain to look to the 2026 draft class for its next stab at a franchise QB.
It doesn’t make sense to pay a running back eight figures annually as one of the worst teams in the league restarting with a rookie quarterback next offseason, which renders Hall all the more likely to end up on the trade block in the coming week.
Breece Hall on Pace for Career Year in 2025, Despite Jets’ Struggles on Offense
GettyRunning back Breece Hall of the New York Jets.
Hall was getting Offensive Rookie of the Year buzz halfway through his rookie campaign in 2022 before he tore his ACL in Week 7.
But he has played in 41 of a possible 42 games since, starting 40 of those contests. Hall has yet to eclipse 1,000 yards rushing in his career, though he came within six yards of that mark in 2023 on 223 carries and finished 124 yards shy of four figures last year on 209 attempts. He scored five TDs on the ground in both campaigns.
Hall has put up 581 yards and two scores on the ground this season, running at a clip 5.0 yards per rush. For his career, he has tallied 173 catches for 1,470 yards and eight TDs.
Max Dible covers the NFL, NBA and MLB for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns. He covered local and statewide news as a reporter for West Hawaii Today and served as news director for BigIslandNow.com and Pacific Media Group’s family of Big Island radio stations before joining Heavy. More about Max Dible
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