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The Kansas City Chiefs are bringing Terion Stewart on board as an undrafted free agent, which isn't a sentence that likely caught most NFL fans' eyes.
Except there's two key points about Stewart that make him a fascinating UDFA signing out of Virginia Tech.
For one, he measured 5-foot-5 and 7/8 in the pre-draft process. That's about as short as any RB entering the NFL in a long time.
The second is that Stewart was incredibly elusive in his college career.
Pro Football Focus measured him as the most elusive RB in college football history:
Projected UDFA RB Terion Stewart narrowly edges out Ashton Jeanty and Bijan Robinson as the most elusive RB in PFF College history pic.twitter.com/3edYdFd3qO
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Stewart is just one of a bunch of new RBs to the Chiefs, so it won't be a given that he makes the team.
He does have that intriguing skillset, and it's not just based on shiftiness. He's also sturdy and breaks right through tackles, too.
Stewart is originally from Sandusky, Ohio, where he had 6,133 rushing yards in high school for the local Blue Streaks.
He then stayed in northwest Ohio to shine at Bowling Green before wrapping up his college career with the Hokies.
He ran 82 times for 469 yards at Virginia Tech, but his total body of work clearly caught the attention of the Chiefs.
It'll be an uphill climb, but Stewart has the uniqueness factor working in his favor, at least.
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