ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Chiefs wide receiver Kadarius Toney had surgery Tuesday morning to repair torn meniscus cartilage in his knee, and his absence will have short-term and long-range implications for the club. Recovery times for similar injuries usually range from four to six weeks. The Chiefs host the Detroit Lions in 44 days, just more than six weeks, and …
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Chiefs wide receiver Kadarius Toney tweaked his knee during the team’s first training camp workout Sunday, and one of his teammates says the injury may sideline him until the start of the regular season. Tight end Travis Kelce said Monday that it was a matter of letting Toney heal and “we’ll take care of the load …
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. – Just two days after Chiefs head coach Andy Reid questioned whether Isiah Pacheco would be ready for the start of training camp, the starting running back proclaimed himself healthy and that he will “absolutely” start in Week 1 against the Detroit Lions. “I’m feeling great right now,” Pacheco said after Thursday’s practice. “It’s a process and …
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Selected by his hometown team in the first round of the NFL Draft should have been a dream come true for Felix Anudike-Uzomah but his first few weeks as a member of the Kansas City Chiefs proved frustrating. He sustained a torn ligament in his thumb on the final defensive play of the Big 12 Championship …
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — One day after head coach Andy Reid suggested Isiah Pacheco might be delayed in his training camp debut, the starting running back made a spirited appearance on the first day of workouts that removed any doubts about his offseason recovery. Pacheco was all smiles Wednesday as he arrived at the practice fields on the campus of …
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Chiefs defensive tackle Tershaw Wharton will begin training camp on the physically unable to perform list, and there’s a chance starting running back Isiah Pacheco may join him when veterans report later this week. Wharton did not participate in the team’s offseason program. He suffered a torn ACL in the team’s Week 5 win over Las …
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Just a month ago, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid expressed optimism that All-Pro defensive tackle Chris Jones would be in attendance when the team opened training camp but he set a different tone Tuesday as quarterbacks and rookies check into the dormitory at Missouri Western State University. “I don’t know that,” Reid said when asked about …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Wide receiver Tim Brown made it all the way to the Pro Football Hall of Fame but he never attended a game at his hometown Texas Stadium until he was a player in the NFL. “I grew up in Dallas and the Cowboys were very good during the mid-’70s and late-’70s,” Brown said. “I never stepped …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Things have changed just a bit since the summer of 1983 when 18-year-old Allen Wright headed to his first training camp working as an equipment manager for the Chiefs. “The size of the staff probably is the biggest part of it,” said Wright, who on Wednesday supervised the packing for the 40th training camp road trip …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In just two weeks the Chiefs’ rookies and quarterbacks will step on the practice fields at Missouri Western State University to open training camp. That’s when the work begins in earnest on whittling down a roster of 90 players to the 53 who will make the initial squad on Aug. 29. Yet the structure of the …
