Justin Reid

After spending his first four years as a pro with the Texans, Reid joined the Chiefs on a three-year, $31.5 million deal prior to the 2022 season. Reid lived up to the contract in his first year with the team, nearing his career high for tackles (88, set in his 2018 rookie season) by notching 83 stops, while adding a sack. The 26-year-old should operate in a similar role in 2023, though he'll need to familiarize himself with a new fellow starting safety in the wake of Juan Thornhill's departure in free agency.

After spending his first four NFL seasons with the Texans, Reid inked a three-year, $31.5 million contract to join the Chiefs' secondary in 2022. Reid has proven to be a willing tackler, racking up 83 or more tackles in each of his first three NFL campaigns. He's no slouch at getting his hands on the ball either, notching seven total interceptions in his first four NFL campaigns. He will take over Tyrann Mathieu's spot in the secondary and should start opposite Juan Thornhill.

As more of a center-fielding free safety than an in-the-box strong safety, Reid's talents probably don't go fully recognized by IDP scoring. He discourages targets more than he invites them, especially on a Houston defense with much easier targets elsewhere, and his tackle production was limited otherwise by the number of corner snaps he played last year. Reid is a very good athlete by cornerback standards and an elite one at safety, so he's often the most qualified candidate to take on a given coverage task, which doesn't necessarily lend itself to tackle opportunities. With all that said, his numbers from last year might mark something of a worst-case scenario, and Reid otherwise has more interception upside than most safeties. At 6-1, 207 with a 4.40 40, 36.5-inch vertical, 128-inch broad jump and 10.8 agility score, very few safeties cover ground like Reid, whose 1,838 defensive snaps to this point contain per-snap tackle and interception production that projects to roughly 90 tackles and three picks per 1,000 snaps.

The brother of Carolina's Eric, Justin is a hyper-athletic CB/S tweener with classic free safety traits rather than the big, strong look his brother provides. The younger Reid fell to the third round last year and already looks like a steal, as he emerged as a starter in October last season after outplaying Houston's incumbents in September. He's likely to see about 1,000 snaps and therefore improve on last year's tackle numbers, while his 10 passes defended hint at even more interception upside than his three from last year.

Reid was selected in the third round of the 2018 draft out of Stanford and will be part of the safety rotation behind Tyrann Mathieu and Kareem Jackson.