Matt Derrick is the lead beat writer and publisher of Chiefs Digest. He joined Chiefs Digest in 2013 and became lead beat writer in 2016. He resides in Kansas City, Missouri.
INDIANAPOLIS — The Chiefs made their first major move toward building their 2024 roster and reconfiguring their wide receiver room Wednesday by releasing wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling. The move saves the Chiefs $12 million in cap space. Valdes-Scantling was slated to earn $11.56 million in base salary next season, the final year of a three-year, $30 million deal he signed …
INDIANAPOLIS — Chiefs general manager Brett Veach has another week before deciding whether to use the franchise tag on pending free agents Chris Jones or L’Jarius Sneed. But on Tuesday at the NFL Scouting Combine, Veach offered hints at his course of action when asked if Sneed would be the team’s likely target. “I think we’ll see,” Veach said. “I …
LAS VEGAS — Even after joking last month that he’s old but not old enough to retire, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid was short, sweet and direct to the point Monday morning when asked if he will return as the team’s head coach for the 2024 season. “Yep, yep,” Reid said in the light of day following his team’s electrifying …
LAS VEGAS — When Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Chris Jones arrived at Allegiant Stadium dressed in black for Super Bowl LVIII, it appeared the trio of Chiefs’ captains had collaborated in fully embracing the dark side and making Kansas City a wretched hive of scum and villainy. But Mahomes says it wasn’t a coordinated decision to appear as America’s …
LAS VEGAS – The Chiefs franchise claimed its fourth Super Bowl championship, but two members of their coaching staff now have more rings than that. Linebackers coach Brendan Daly joins an exclusive group of 15 people with six Super Bowl rings. Daly won three rings as an assistant and defensive line coach with New England, and he now owns three …
LAS VEGAS – Running back Jerick McKinnon, who earned Super Bowl praise a year ago for sliding short of the end zone to run out the clock against the Philadelphia Eagles, will suit up in Super Bowl LVIII just 40 days after surgery for a core muscle. McKinnon, who underwent surgery on Jan. 2 for the injury also involving a …
LAS VEGAS — The Kansas City Chiefs won’t have All-Pro left guard Joe Thuney available for Sunday’s Super Bowl showdown with the San Francisco 49ers but the club delivered good news for receiver Rashee Rice one day after a scare in Thursday’s practice. Thuney was ruled out by the club on Friday due to a pectoral injury. Head coach Andy …
LAS VEGAS — Chief wide receiver Rashee and running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire were limited in practice on Thursday but neither issue appears serious enough to impact their availability in Super Bowl LVIII Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers. Rice, who has been dealing with a sore ankle in recent weeks, got his other ankle stepped on about an hour into …
LAS VEGAS — The Chiefs will have one more receiver available at their disposal in Sunday’s Super Bowl LVIII showdown against the San Francisco 49ers after activating wide receiver Skyy Moore from injured reserve Wednesday. Moore landed on injured reserve Dec. 18 after injuring his knee in the team’s Week 15 win against the New England Patriots. The club designated …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chiefs left guard Joe Thuney didn’t practice this week as the Chiefs began their preparations for Super Bowl LVIII, but the club listed the left guard as questionable with a strained right pectoral on their Friday injury report. Head coach Andy Reid on Thursday didn’t rule out the possibility of Thuney playing next Sunday against the …
