KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs declined Thursday to train the fifth-year choice for the 2025 season on the contract of huge receiver Kadarius Toney, a supply informed ESPN, giving him another season remaining on the deal he signed with the New York Giants as a first-round draft choose in 2021.
Toney was traded to the Chiefs the following yr.
Each normal supervisor Brett Veach and coach Andy Reid lately indicated Toney was within the Chiefs’ plans this season.
“I do not assume we ever stopped believing in him,” Veach mentioned shortly earlier than the draft. “I believe folks across the constructing like him. It is the harm bug. Hopefully, he will get some luck on his facet and may keep wholesome and could be the participant that he was at Florida and the participant that we have seen in spurts right here. I am simply hoping he has offseason and has a little bit luck on his facet and may keep wholesome.”
With the Chiefs relying on him for giant manufacturing, Toney had a disappointing 2023 season. He tore a meniscus fielding kicks in the beginning of the primary observe of coaching camp, main him to overlook the rest of camp.
He had surgical procedure and returned for the season opener, however his deflection of a catchable cross to a defender who returned it for a landing was a key play in a one-point loss to the Detroit Lions.
Accidents continued for Toney the remainder of the season. The Chiefs listed him on their weekly harm report for 19 of their 21 video games, counting the postseason.
Toney performed in 13 video games however had simply 27 catches for 169 yards and a landing.
Toney’s different notable performs in the course of the season had been expensive to the Chiefs. He appeared to attain the profitable landing after taking a lateral from Travis Kelce late in a Week 14 recreation towards the Buffalo Payments, however the play was worn out when Toney was penalized for being offside and the Chiefs wound up dropping the sport.
He once more deflected a catchable cross to a defender for an interception the following week towards the New England Patriots and he did not play the remainder of the season, together with the postseason.
The Chiefs’ main free agent acquisition, Marquise Brown, and their first-round draft choose, Xavier Worthy, are huge receivers.
