Justin Reid's career has been eerily similar to Tyrann Mathieu's | OneFootball

Justin Reid won't be wearing a Kansas City Chiefs jersey in 2025. The safety agreed to a three-year deal with the New Orleans Saints that will pay him $31.5 million.

With that news now making the rounds, it's hard not to compare Reid's career to Tyrann Mathieu's. Both guys are from Louisiana and eventually ended up back in the state at some point during their careers but the way they got there are similar.

Both went in the third round of their respective drafts with Mathieu landing in Arizona and Reid in Houston. The two overlapped for one year in Houston (2018, which was Reid's rookie year) before Mathieu signed with the Chiefs in the 2019 offseason.

Mathieu went on to spend the next three years in Kansas City and appeared in two Super Bowls while winning one of them. After his contract expired, he signed a three-year deal with the Saints in the 2022 offseason. The Chiefs replaced him with none other than Justin Reid.

Justin Reid and Tyrann Mathieu have had very similar careers

Reid signed with the Chiefs in the 2022 offseason, replacing Mathieu and immediately becoming a huge piece in the K.C. secondary. The Chiefs won two Super Bowls while Reid was in Kansas City and he played in a Super Bowl in all three of his K.C. seasons, which is pretty remarkable.

After three years with the Chiefs, Reid signed a three-year deal with the Saints. He and Mathieu will now play together for at least a year in the Big Easy and it's crazy how eerily similar their careers have been. Both guys are from Lousiana and now are in New Orleans after getting drafted in the third round and at some point playing for both the Texans and the Chiefs.

Mathieu's Saints haven't seen much success since he arrived there in 2022 and he's had to watch the Chiefs play in three straight Super Bowls. Will Reid's departure be what ends that run? We'll have to wait and see.