Shane Buechele is an American professional football quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Longhorns and SMU Mustangs, then signing with the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent in 2021.
Buechele attended Lamar High School in Arlington, Texas, where he was a star in both football and baseball.
During his career as a quarterback, he passed for 6,379 yards with 73 touchdowns and rushed for 1,805 yards and 21 touchdowns. Buechele was ranked among the top quarterback recruits in his class and was invited to the Elite 11 quarterback competition where he impressed the coaches with his accuracy, eventually finishing second overall. Despite growing up in a pro-Oklahoma Sooner household, Buechele committed to rival Texas to play college football.
