JuJu Smith-Schuster

• Smith-Schuster enters his second season with the Chiefs in 2024 after spending a year with the team in 2022.
• Originally entered the NFL as the second-round pick (62nd overall) by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2017 NFL Draft.

Career Highlights:

• Trailed only TE Travis Kelce in receiving yards and receptions for the Chiefs in 2022.
• Fourth-youngest player in NFL history to reach 3,000 career receiving yards and 20 career receiving TDs. 23 years, 310 days, when he reached the mark, Smith-Schuster passed Odell Beckham Jr. (23 years, 325 days).
• Only NFL player since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger to register at least 250 receptions, 3,300 receiving yards and 21 receiving TDs before his 24th birthday.
• At 24 years and 37 days old (at the time of the game), Smith-Schuster surpassed Larry Fitzgerald (24 years, 86 days) as the second-youngest player to reach 300 career receptions in NFL history.
• First wide receiver in NFL history to post 12 100-yard receiving games prior to their 23rd birthday – besting the previous record of 11 (Randy Moss, Minnesota Vikings).
• First wide receiver in NFL history to record 200 career receptions before his 23rd birthday.
• Third player in NFL history to register 250 career receptions before his 24th birthday.
• His 265 receptions were the second most by a player before his 24th birthday since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger.
• Youngest player in NFL history to reach 2,500 career receiving yards.
• Set single-season highs with 1,426 receiving yards (fifth-most by a Steeler in a single season), the first 1,000 receiving yard season of his NFL career, 1,439 scrimmage yards and 111 catches (fourth-most by a Steeler in a single season) in 2018.
• Eclipsed 1,500 receiving yards in his 21st game, setting a Steelers franchise record for the fewest games to the milestone (Louis Lipps, 23).
• Third Steeler in franchise history to record at least 100 catches in a season, (Antonio Brown: six seasons, Hines Ward: one season).
• Set a Steeler franchise record for the fewest games played to reach 100 catches (20), reaching the mark on Oct. 14, 2018.
• Set a Steeler franchise record for the fewest games played to reach 150 catches (28), reaching the mark on Dec. 16, 2018.
• Totaled at least 100 receiving yards in eight games in 2018, which tied as the second-most by a Steeler in a single season with Antonio Brown (2014 and 2017). (Record: Antonio Brown, 2015: 9)
• Totaled 1,972 receiving yards in the first 25 games of his career, the fourth-most by an NFL player since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger.
• Recorded the fifth-most receptions (169), 10th-most receiving yards (2,343) and tied with Randy Moss for the fourth-most 100-receiving yard games (11) in a player's first two seasons in NFL history.
• Amassed five TD catches before turning 21, the most in NFL history by a player before his 21st birthday (turned 21 on Nov. 22, 2018).
• First Steelers rookie - and just the fourth NFL rookie - to earn Offensive and Special Teams Player of the Week honors, joining Eddie Kennison (1996), Reggie Bush (2006) and Tyreek Hill (2016).
• Recorded the most receiving yards by a rookie in franchise history (917).
• At 20 years old in 2017, he became the youngest player to score a touchdown in the NFL since 1964 (Chicago's Andy Livingston) and the youngest NFL player to catch a touchdown pass since 1930 (Green Bay's Arnie Herber).

Honors:

• 2018 Pro Bowl selection.
• 2017 Weeks 8 and 17 AFC Offensive Player of the Week.
• 2017 PFWA All-Rookie Team.

Transactions:

Signed by Kansas City (8/26/24) ... Cut by New England (8/9/24) ... Signed by New England (3/16/23) ... Signed with Kansas City (3/21/22) ... Re-signed with Pittsburgh (3/19/21) ... Originally entered the NFL as the second-round pick (62nd overall) by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2017 NFL Draft.