Bennie Logan has signed a one-year deal with the Kansas City Chiefs presumably to replace nose-tackle Dontari Poe.
Hearing DT Bennie Logan will sign a 1yr deal with KC. Visiting with team now. #Chiefs @NFL
— Jason Ashworth (@AllAshworth) March 13, 2017
Bennie Logan was drafted in the 3rd-round by the Philadelphia Eagles in 2013. He played his college ball at LSU and was a first team all-American there. Logan is 27 years old, stand 6-foot-2 inches tall and weighs 309 lbs. While no news on Dontari Poe has surfaced yet, it was hoped that he might return to the Chiefs after making the rounds of other interested teams. Bennie Logan has had 5.5 sacks and 79 tackles in the past two seasons, stats good enough to make you sit up and pay attention.
In a piece by Pro Football Focus called, “10 Sleeper Free Agents” it was said of Bennie Logan,
“Logan is a true nose tackle, effectively limiting him to being a two-down player, which in today’s NFL has never been less valuable in terms of contract dollars. He has the ability though to make a major impact on those two downs if a team is willing to embrace the type of player he is. This past season he was a poor fit for Philadelphia’s new, aggressive, one-gap defensive front, but the year before he notched 45 defensive stops, fourth in the league among all interior defenders despite playing just 597 snaps in total. Only Damon Harrison had a better run-stop percentage than Logan’s 14.8 percent, a figure that would also have been second to Harrison this season. Embrace the two-gapping, run-stuffing ability and you could transform your run defense for pennies on the dollar.”
If you were waiting for a big offseason move by John Dorsey, this was most likely… IT. Look out now, because John Dorsey just made the Chiefs a better team. Here are some shots of Bennie Logan.
