KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs lost veteran kicker Cairo Santos for at least half of the season, but the team hopes it has found a diamond in the rough with rookie kicker Harrison Butker. Butker, a seventh-round draft pick from Georgia Tech by the Carolina Panthers, nearly unseated veteran Graham Gano during a pitched training camp battle. …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs chairman and CEO Clark Hunt issued a statement Sunday afternoon in the wake of President Donald Trump’s remarks over the weekend that NFL owner should suspend or fire players who chose not to stand during the national anthem before games. Hunt’s statement alludes to his past remarks that he prefers players to stand …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs captured their second-straight NFL player of the week honor with defensive lineman Chris Jones nabbing recognition thanks to his big day in the team’s 27-20 win over the Philadelphia Eagles. “It felt pretty good,” Jones said. “Like I told my (defensive line) coach Britt Reid, it’s not about last week it’s about …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Landing on the cover of Sports Illustrated following an NFL debut happens in movies and dreams, but now it’s the world in which Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt lives after his monstrous first outing against New England in week one. “It’s a lot of new people around,” Hunt said. “But I keep my circle tight, still …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith delivered a nearly flawless performance in his team’s 42-27 dismantling of the New England Patriots, capturing AFC offensive player of the week honors for week one. Smith completed 28 of 35 passes for 368 yards and four touchdowns against the Patriots defense, compiling a quarterback rating of 148.6. It’s the second offensive …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Head coach Andy Reid repeatedly makes the case that no one can replace injured safety Eric Berry, who undergoes season-ending repair of his Achilles tendon this week. “That’s not what you’re going to do, not the whole package of Eric Berry,” Reid said. “He’s one of the great ones in the game.” In fact, it takes …
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 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. — Brett Veach, then the co-director of player personnel for the Kansas City Chiefs, flew to Dallas to meet team chairman and CEO Clark Hunt to interview for the team’s vacant general manager position. A four-hour interview and six days later, he was absolutely positive he tanked it. “Then I got back and I didn’t hear anything …
