Chiefs sign 5-foot-5 RB ranked 'most elusive RB' in college football history

Chiefs sign 5-foot-5 RB ranked 'most elusive RB' in college football history originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Kansas City Chiefs are bringing Terion Stewart on board as an undrafted free agent, which isn't a sentence that likely caught most NFL fans' eyes.

Except there's two key points about Stewart that make him a fascinating UDFA signing out of Virginia Tech. For one, he measured 5-foot-5 and 7/8 in the pre-draft process. That's about as short as any RB entering the NFL in a long time.

The second is that Stewart was incredibly elusive in his college career. Pro Football Focus measured him as the most elusive RB in college football history: Projected UDFA RB Terion Stewart narrowly edges out Ashton Jeanty and Bijan Robinson as the most elusive RB in PFF College history pic. twitter.

com/3edYdFd3qO — Scott Barrett (@ScottBarrettDFB) March 27, 2026 MORE: Diego Pavia, Shedeur Sanders and an NFL QB problem that goes back to Tim Tebow Stewart is just one of a bunch of new RBs to the Chiefs, so it won't be a given that he makes the team. He does have that intriguing skillset, and it's not just based on shiftiness. He's also sturdy and breaks right through tackles, too.