The left tackle position will be front and center at Kansas City Chiefs training camp.

The team reported for duty in St. Joseph at Missouri Western State University on Sunday. When they hit the practice field for the first time on Tuesday, all eyes will be on who gets the first crack as the starting left tackle.

The battle will be between 2025 first-round draft pick Josh Simmons and free agent acquisition Jaylon Moore. Simmons has all the tools you want in a franchise LT, but health was a concern during the draft process. However, question marks about the state of his knee seem to have been put at ease.

Moore has spent the majority of his four-year NFL career as a backup, but the guy he was behind on the depth chart (San Francisco 49ers LT Trent Williams) is a future Hall of Famer. The Chiefs are hoping Moore has learned well under Williams’ tutelage and is ready to blaze his own path.

Coach Andy Reid spoke to the media upon his arrival to camp, and put it pretty plainly when asked what he will be looking for at the LT position.

“You got to look for the best guy that can fill that spot so we can have a little consistency there,” Reid said. “We didn’t have that last year, so let’s work at it and see we come up with. We’ve got some good candidates for it, and we’ll just see where it goes.”

Reid was then asked about Simmons’ conditioning, being that he hasn’t seen on-field action since October.

“He stayed up here this whole break, he has been here and working his tail off,” Reid said. “It looks like — the way he finished phase three — it looks like he is ready to go. We’ll keep an eye on him and see where he’s at, but his conditioning was good when he was out there, and he seems to be a worker, so we’ll just have to see. He’s never been through one of these, so we got to see how it goes.”

Reid and others within the Chiefs organization have commented on how impressed they are with Simmons’ recovery and work ethic ever since drafting him. Ultimately, whoever performs the best and is the most consistent will win the starting job, which Reid said they will likely determine by the end of camp.

“I think by the time you get out of this thing you’d like to have an idea of who that is,” Reid said. “You want to have a feel on it. We evaluate these guys every play, whether it’s a light practice or a hard practice, they’re evaluated and graded. We’ll see how it all sorts out.”