KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs president Mark Donovan probably feels he climbed the highest mountains and run through the fields in bringing U2 to Arrowhead Stadium for Tuesday’s stop on The Joshua Tree Tour 2017. “I started working on U2 when I was in Philadelphia,” said Donovan, who joined the Kansas City front office in 2009 after six …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs placed safety Eric Berry on injured reserve and confirmed the signing of Steven Terrell, the former Seattle Seahawks safety waived by the Chiefs on the final day of cuts following the preseason. The 26-year-old Terrell played 32 games over the last three seasons for the Seahawks, primarily on special teams. He started …
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The look on the face of Chiefs safety Eric Berry told the story long before test results confirmed the bad news that the All-Pro defender will miss the rest of the 2017 campaign with a rupture Achilles tendon. Now the Chiefs and head coach Andy Reid must face move forward without their emotional leader on defense. “You’re …
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The celebration of the Chiefs 42-27 win over New England was nearly underway when an injury to one of the team’s biggest defensive stars put a damper on the biggest night for Kansas City football in years. Safety Eric Berry went to the turf with just under 5 minutes remaining in the game and the Chiefs up …
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — In a game in which the Kansas City Chiefs pulled out a stunning 42-27 come-from-behind win over the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots on their coronation night, the play of the game turned out to be an innocuous 9-yard midway through the first quarter. That’s when Chiefs coach Andy Reid turned again to rookie running …
This is a column I enjoy writing. Although it’s a long-running series, this is its first appearance on ChiefsDigest.com. It’s my Chiefs-oriented homage to Peter King’s column you may be familiar with. These are the “Chief” things I think as the team opens the 2017 season. Observations to this point Brett Veach shows signs of more aggressively acquiring players than …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs reported its entire 53-man active roster participating in the team’s final walk-through before taking on the New England Patriots in the kickoff to the 2017 NFL season. The full practice designation comes with a grain of salt, however — with a shortened practice week and the game one day away, Wednesday’s practice is a …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The boxing adage says styles make fights, and if any heavyweight match up fits that adage in today’s NFL, it’s the defensive mind of the Patriots’ Bill Belichick versus the offensive creativity of the Chiefs’ Andy Reid. “He’s great man and a tremendous coach and a good friend,” Belichick said of Reid this week.” I’ll be …
Thursday sets the stage for arguably the Chiefs’ biggest early season game since the Broncos traveled to Kansas City for a Thursday night affair in week two of 2015. The Chiefs would fall in that game 31-24 to the eventual Super Bowl champions. Kansas City would start the season 1-5 before rattling off 11 consecutive wins, including their first playoff …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs as expected returned running back C.J. Spiller to the active roster Sunday afternoon but the more stunning development came from how the team cleared room for the veteran back, placing starting cornerback Steven Nelson on injured reserve. Head coach Andy Reid hinted at a long-term issue with Nelson during his press conference Sunday but …
