KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs haven’t won a home playoff game in 24 years, but that hasn’t deterred Chiefs fans from buying into Saturday’s Wild Card game against the Tennessee Titans, and the club’s front office is throwing its weight into the fight to try to put the team in the winner’s circle. Team president Mark Donovan said 88 …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs have reached an agreement keeping the team’s training camp in St. Joseph, Mo., for the 2018 season on the campus of Missouri Western State University. Club and school officials announced the deal Thursday, which includes a mutual option for the 2019 season. Both sides continued expressing optimism of returning the team’s training …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker’s fairy tale rookie campaign shows so signs of slowing down, the kicker adding another piece of hardware to his growing collection with the AFC’s special teams player of the month award. Butker twice won the league’s special teams player of the week award, in Week 8 and again in Week 16. The rookie hit …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kareem Hunt ended his season just as it began in September, booking ending his rookie campaign with the NFL’s offensive rookie of the month award for December. Hunt is the first running back to win more than one rookie of the month award since Adrian Peterson in 2007. New Orleans’ defensive back Marshon Lattimore won the …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sunday’s victory over the Denver Broncos in the season finale proved costly for Kansas City’s special teams with coordinator Dave Toub searching for replacements with the team’s top two kick returners gone for the season. “We’ve got a number of guys who can do it,” Toub said. “(Demarcus Robinson) can do it, (Charcandrick West) can do …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Linebacker Reggie Ragland learned this week his Kansas City Chiefs last won a home playoff game 24 years ago, adding just a bit more motivation ahead of the team’s Wild Card showdown Saturday against the Tennessee Titans at Arrowhead Stadium. “It means we’ve got to go out there and get it done,” Ragland said. Ragland’s NFL …
The Chiefs finished the 2017 season in fitting fashion, with kicker Harrison Butker booting a game-winning 30-yard field to send Kansas City past Denver 27-24, putting a cap on one of the most prolific season for field goals in NFL history. Butker finished the season with 38 field goals, putting him in a tie for the sixth-most field goals in …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs plan a youth movement for Sunday’s season finale against the Denver Broncos, and while most eyes will fixate on quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the team’s coaches plan to evaluate all their young talent. Offensive coordinator Matt Nagy picked a surprising name as the player he’s most eager to watch aside from Mahomes. “I think DeAnthony …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The NFL’s longest current iron man streak among offensive lineman might come to an end this weekend as the Kansas City Chiefs prepare to rest many of their starters in the season finale at the Denver Broncos. Right tackle Mitchell Schwartz enters the game with two of the longest current active streaks among offensive linemen. He holds …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chiefs head coach Andy Reid entered Kansas City’s quarterback room on Tuesday to deliver the news that rookie Patrick Mahomes would start the team’s regular season final Sunday at Denver. “We were in here watching film as a group and we were just trying to learn as we go and he went out and gave us …