Chiefs wide receiver Kadarius Toney made his debut with his new team in Sunday night’s 20-17 win over the Tennessee Titans at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.

Toney, whom the Chiefs acquired in a trade from the New York Giants during the Week 8 bye, only played nine offensive snaps in the win.

While it’s a small sample size, Toney made the most of them with two catches for 12 yards on two targets to impress Chiefs coach Andy Reid.

“I liked the option route that he ran,” Reid said Monday. “It gave you a little taste of his quickness and ability to get open.”

The Chiefs knew what they were getting with the 6-foot, 193-pound Toney as a receiver, but there was another area that stood out not typically found in a box score stat sheet.

“Some of his blocks were unbelievable,” Reid said. “I mean, that’s not what we brought him here for. He’s a tough kid and he did it against defensive ends, good defensive ends.”

A wide receiver’s ability to block down the field or at the line of scrimmage is often expected in a West Coast offense. And the Chiefs have had their share of them under Reid in recent seasons from the likes of Sammy Watkins, Demarcus Robinson to Byron Pringle.

Toney showed Sunday night that he can transition from receiver to blocker. Case in point, he was down the field in the first quarter blocking against Titans cornerback Kristian Fulton during quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ 16-yard run on the Chiefs’ first possession. He also threw a chip block later in the game against Titans defensive lineman Jefferey Simmons.

In the meantime, Toney’s nine offensive snaps in his debut were by design because he had just three days of practice leading to the game against the Titans.

His willingness to put his body on the line when the ball isn’t in his hands should only assist in increasing his playing time as he continues to absorb the offensive scheme.

“He’ll keep working in,” Reid said. “He just hasn’t played much, so we had him on a kind of number count, snap count, only had a few things in for him. We’ll keep working him in.

“I thought last week getting those practices in where he had the practice, the full practice, practice fast, and get to know Pat (Mahomes) and what we do there, get to know the terminology, I thought was important for him. Then, you can start building on some things.”