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Longest tenured Chief named to Missouri Sports Hall of Fame | KCTV5
On Wednesday, the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame shared its Class of 2026, which will be enshrined Feb. 1 in Springfield.
The class includes former Kansas City Chiefs punter Dustin Colquitt, the man who has played the most games in franchise history and was a two-time Pro Bowler for Kansas City.
Colquitt was a member of the Super Bowl 54 championship team for Kansas City.
NFL Top 10 moments of 2025: Chiefs Fall, Rivers Returns, Sheduer
Sanders Slides | FOX Sports
1. Chiefs eliminated, Patrick Mahomes injured
This season marked the unofficial end of Kansas City’s dynasty … at least in this iteration.
Three-time Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes tore the ACL and LCL in his left knee late in the fourth quarter of the Chiefs’ Week 15 game against the Chargers. Minutes later, Kansas City was eliminated from playoff contention for the first time since 2014, three years before the star quarterback was drafted.
Where to begin? This starts with the fact that the Chiefs have played so much football over the last seven seasons. In that span, they’ve logged 21 playoff games — that’s more than a full regular season’s worth. Fatigue has to be a factor in Kansas City’s myriad offensive problems in 2025, which have resulted in the unit’s worst statistical season in memory (20th in scoring, 17th in yards). The offensive line has struggled, and as much as I like the physicality both Isiah Pacheco and Kareem Hunt bring to the field, they don’t often create in space. Both are efficient when given a hole, but neither earns chunk yards on his own. For proof, the Chiefs have only gained 2.8 rush yards after contact per carry this season, tied for 28th in the NFL, according to Next Gen Stats. Both Hunt (158 carries, 597 yards, eight rush TDs) and Pacheco (118 carries, 462 yards, one rush TD) are free agents this offseason. Seventh-round rookie Brashard Smith could claim a larger role going forward, but Kansas City will have to significantly overhaul this group in free agency and the draft.
2025 NFL All-Rookie team: Best first-year players by position | ESPN
Left tackle
Second team: Josh Simmons, Kansas City Chiefs. I don’t think Simmons would have knocked Banks out of the first-team spot if he had been healthy the whole season, but it sure would have been close.
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New England Patriots DT Christian Barmore facing domestic assault charge | NBC News
The victim is 31-year-old woman who shares a 2-year-old daughter with Barmore, according to a report by Mansfield police Sgt. John Armstrong.
The incident allegedly happened on Aug. 8, the same day as New England’s first preseason game of the 2025 campaign. Barmore did not play in that 48-18 exhibition win over the Washington Commanders.
Barmore and the woman had been arguing that day when she tried to call for help and the player took a phone out of her hands and “threw her to the floor,” the police report said.
Packers awarded former All-Pro CB Trevon Diggs on waivers | Acme Packing Company
Diggs has a lot of ties to Green Bay. First of all, he was recruited to Alabama by Packers passing game coordinator Derrick Ansley. He’s also very close with fellow Dallas Cowboys Micah Parsons. Parsons, along with quarterback Jordan Love and safety Xavier McKinney, shares the same agent as Diggs, Athletes First’s David Mulugheta. McKinney also played with Diggs at Alabama, and head coach Matt LaFleur is also represented by Athletes First.
The addition of Diggs will cost the Packers about half a million in cap space, but now, at minimum, they’ll have a non-practice squadder available to play in the playoffs if either Keisean Nixon or Carrington Valentine end up going down.
NFL sets Streaming Record on Christmas | Front Office Sports
After another rather spirited back-and-forth between the NFL and the NBA—and their respective supporters—about who should have supremacy on Christmas, the average football viewership of 22.9 million for the tripleheader more than quadrupled the NBA’s average of 5.5 million on Disney-owned platforms for a generally strong five-game set.
“There are some 50/50’s out there,” Fowler said. “Cleveland, Las Vegas, those are two places I see as — they’ve done their preliminary research for a potential move. That doesn’t mean they’re locked into doing it, or that they decided yet. But those are certainly on my radar.”
In Las Vegas, former Super Bowl-winning coach Pete Carroll has led the Raiders to a league-worst 2–14 record in his first season after coming out of retirement.
The 74-year-old Carroll was brought into stabilize the franchise, but instead it has been another season of dysfunction.
Star pass rusher Maxx Crosby left the team facility last week after being told he was being put on IR.
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AP Mailbag: What Chiefs players do we want to see in Week 18?
[Jalen] Royals’ early-season injury likely set him back more than many anticipated. His overlapping skill set with Smith-Schuster may have further limited opportunities — especially since the veteran stayed healthy for a full season for the first time since 2020.
There was also a clear disconnect between media evaluations and team assessments during the last draft cycle. After regularly appearing in second- and third-round mock drafts, Royals slid to Day 3, when Kansas City selected him 133rd overall. The jump in competition from Utah State to the NFL was probably a factor, too.
Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of Royals’ limited usage is that he never got a look as a kick returner, despite Kansas City’s lack of explosiveness on special teams.
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