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Dunno if it's a repost
That said, there is a great article about Niang in the Athletic this month. It is behind a paywall, so I will quote it liberally for you.
Niang nodded in agreement and smiled. The scene on Nov. 20, yt link ommited, showcased Niang’s training and progress after he opted out of last season amid the coronavirus pandemic. While the Chiefs that day were conducting their final practice before playing a rematch against the Las Vegas Raiders, Niang was on a field with Yarris in New Canaan, Conn., his hometown, to refine his pass-protection techniques.
Since the middle of September, about five weeks after he elected to opt out, Niang has worked out with Yarris four days each week. Each session has Niang exert himself and polish his technique through at least 200 repetitions. But Yarris doesn’t consider himself a traditional trainer.
“I’m a behavior scientist,” said Yarris, the CEO of BX Movement, a behavior analysis and fitness company. “I teach technique and movement as behaviors. My goal with Lucas isn’t to make him the fastest, strongest and biggest. It’s to specify what the Chiefs want from him and then help him integrate that into his natural response pattern.”
Working most of the time as the right tackle, Niang has improved his hand placement when engaging a pass rusher and has more counter moves when reacting to the various pass-rushing moves. Niang relayed the information, terminology and movement patterns he learned from offensive line assistant Andy Heck to Yarris, who had the task of reinforcing the Chiefs’ coaching during their sessions. During one YouTube video, when Yarris used the long arm, a famous pass-rush move, he explained that the Chiefs want Niang and the rest of their tackles to lift the defender’s arm up and off his body so he can regain leverage. Yarris said he has seven more workout videos to post on YouTube, including the run-game footwork that Heck has taught Niang.
The end of each session is the same, with Niang starting at the 1-yard line. Yarris puts Niang through a hurry-up-offense drill. After each repetition, which moves Niang closer to the desired goal line, Yarris will have him split time at both tackle positions. Yarris is optimistic that Niang, who was selected by the Chiefs in the third round of last year’s draft, will perform well in whatever his role is next season and be a pivotal part of the offensive line’s long-term future.
“If he doesn’t start next year, he wants to be the first tackle off the bench,” Yarris said of Niang, who declined an interview request. “We always keep the left tackle (techniques) fresh.”
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