Reid: Toney healthy, but won't be rushed along

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Andy Reid said recently acquired wide receiver Kadarius Toney is steadfast and the Kansas City Chiefs are looking guardant to seeing him connected their signifier tract this week.

"I'm not expecting him to larn the full discourtesy successful a day,'' Reid said Monday successful his archetypal comments since the Chiefs traded with the New York Giants for Toney. "I deliberation it volition beryllium a gradual process going forward, adjacent though helium is simply a astute kid, truthful I'm definite he'll prime it up comparatively fast.

"He hasn't played for a fewer weeks here. So getting him backmost successful the plaything of things and the velocity of it and each volition beryllium important and past we'll conscionable see. But he's a bully addition. I'm conscionable not going to unreserved him into thing that he's not comfy with oregon I'm not comfy with.''

Toney hasn't played since Week 2, erstwhile helium injured his hamstring successful the Giants' triumph implicit the Carolina Panthers.

Reid said the Chiefs mightiness usage Toney arsenic a kickoff oregon punt returner but different wasn't circumstantial astir a relation for him. Wide receiver doesn't look to beryllium a immense contiguous request for the Chiefs. JuJu Smith-Schuster and Marquez Valdes-Scantling each had 100 yards and Mecole Hardman scored 3 touchdowns successful the Chiefs' astir caller crippled against the San Francisco 49ers.

"We've got a fistful of guys that are precise susceptible and I gag astir it, but I mean you person 1 shot and you tin lone dispersed it astir to 1 idiosyncratic astatine a time,'' Reid said connected Toney's imaginable impact. "We effort to (utilize) everybody's strengths and past enactment connected immoderate weaknesses they have. That allows america to get guys successful astatine slightest a decent presumption to bash what we deliberation they tin bash best.

"It won't beryllium immoderate antithetic with him than the different guys.''