Kansas City Chiefs: 5 offseason needs

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Oct 23, 2016; Kansas City, MO, USA; Kansas City Chiefs strong safety Eric Berry (29) is introduced prior to a game against the New Orleans Saints at Arrowhead Stadium. The Chiefs won 27-21. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports /

2. Lock up Eric Berry

Any team that is lucky to have Eric Berry playing safety for them in 2017, is going to get a player that instantly makes the position a strength. Berry has been a beast of a player since being drafted by the team in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft. The star safety played under the franchise tag last season, and he has already made it known that he will not be doing that again this season.

If the Chiefs want to continue to be one of the better defensive teams in the AFC, they are going to have to lock up Berry for the foreseeable future. He is the kind of players that can turn a game on its head at any time, and he showed in 2016 that he is well worth any amount of money the Chiefs throw at him. Kansas City will play some of the better quarterbacks in the league next season, making their strength in the secondary something that is going to allow them to compete for four quarters.

Not only is Berry one of the better players at his position in the league, but he also is one of the biggest fan favorites inside Arrowhead Stadium. Berry battled back from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2014, coming back to become the NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year. Not re-signing Berry would be a big mistake, and there is nobody available on the free agent market that is going to bring his kind of production the field every Sunday.