The Chiefs agreed to terms with wide receiver Dwayne Bowe on a five-year contract Monday and effectively kept their other top potential free agent, left tackle Branden Albert, off the market by declaring him a franchise player.
The Chiefs have 2013 salary cap commitments of more than $129 million, a total that exceeds the NFL’s expected limit of $123 million, according to figures provided to the Kansas City Star.
The 2012 season ended for the Chiefs with a hideous 38-3 loss in Denver, a 2-14 record and, for their fans, some serious despair.
The Chiefs have had interviews with seven draft-eligible quarterbacks at the NFL Scouting Combine and plan to speak with an eighth Saturday night.
The push to convince the NFL that he’s the top quarterback available in the draft — and the Chiefs that he’s worth the No. 1 overall pick — has started for West Virginia’s Geno Smith.
The Chiefs’ Andy Reid was Philadelphia’s coach when the Eagles drafted Nick Foles. General manager John Dorsey was Green Bay’s director of college scouting when the Packers drafted Matt Flynn.
Playing football as a youngster, Luke Joeckel was an offensive lineman trapped in a quarterback’s body. He was perhaps the only football player ever who liked throwing blocks more than passes.
Sometime down the road, the Chiefs may look at the players they selected in the 2013 draft as the ones who finally put the franchise on the road to success.
The Chiefs on Tuesday released wide receiver Steve Breaston and tight end Kevin Boss.
The Chiefs spent the last several days setting their draft board in preparation for this week’s NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. The process merely confirmed for new general manager John Dorsey that when it comes to quarterbacks, their homework is only starting.
Steve Breaston will turn 30 this summer, and that’s the age at which the skills of many wide receivers decline. He is coming off his worst NFL season, one in which he spent plenty of time anchored on the Chiefs bench.
Quarterback Matt Cassel has been among the regulars working out at the Chiefs’ Truman Sports Complex practice facility since the end of the season.
The Chiefs added to their collection of Hall of Famers on Saturday night, and Bill Parcells will be the first Wichita State alumnus inducted.
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, if you believe what his father says, is dull. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, based on every interview he does, appears painfully shy.
The San Francisco 49ers spent Super Bowl week at the swanky Downtown Marriott just off the French Quarter, worlds apart from a mobile-home park in northeast Kansas.
In the city where they won their only Super Bowl, the Chiefs could celebrate the elections of both an offensive and a defensive player to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Punter Dustin Colquitt made himself a promise regarding the Pro Bowl shortly after being drafted by the Chiefs in 2005.
Bernard Pollard likes to talk and loves to hit.
The clutch quarterback. The genius coach. The big-play defense.
When they were little, the Harbaugh brothers fought so heatedly that John, the older one, once recalled his mother wailing: “You’re brothers! You’re not supposed to act like this!”
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