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Getty Images The NFL hasn’t had a repeat Most Valuable Player since Peyton Manning in 2008 and 2009. Could it happen this year? It could, based on the FanDuel odds, which have Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes as the favorite to win the MVP for the 2019 season, at 6/1 odds. After Mahomes...

Getty Images The Chiefs placed linebacker Martrell Spaight on the reserve/retired list Monday. Spaight, 25, signed a futures contract with the Chiefs in January. Washington made Spaight a fifth-round choice in 2015. He played 30 games with seven starts in his three seasons there, making 87...

Getty Images The Chiefs signed veteran tight end John Phillips on Monday, according to the league’s official transactions. Kansas City cut defensive back Dontae Johnson to make room for Phillips on the 90-player roster. Phillips, 31, played eight games for the Cardinals last season. He made...

Getty Images With the Alliance of American Football coming and going this year, and the XFL coming (and maybe or maybe not going) next year, it’s been easy to forget that arena football is still a thing. But it is. The continuing existence of arena football was brought to our attention with...

Browns running back Kareem Hunt has gotten a second chance because he has the talent to justify it. Regardless, the second chance has been given — and the second chance is being maximized. “Absolutely,” quarterback Baker Mayfield told reporters on Wednesday regarding whether Hunt is making the...

Getty Images When a video emerged in late November 2018 of then-Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt pushing and kicking a woman in the hallway of a Cleveland hotel nine months earlier, the Chiefs moved quickly to cut Hunt — reportedly because Hunt had lied to the Chiefs about the incident. Speaking...

Getty Images Wide receiver Dwayne Bowe hasn’t played in an NFL game since 2015, but he’s only now getting around to formalizing his retirement. The Chiefs announced that they have signed Bowe to a one-day contract so that he can retire as a member of the team that drafted him in the first...

Getty Images The Chiefs’ overtime proposal guaranteeing a possession for the team that kicks off to start overtime has some support. That’s why owners will discuss it again next week after tabling it at their March meetings. It apparently doesn’t have enough support, however. Judy Battista of...

Getty Images Saints receiver Ted Ginn is 34 and has played 12 NFL seasons. He ran a 4.37 in the 40-yard dash at the 2007 Combine while recovering from a sprained foot and said 4.22 is the fastest he has ever run. Ginn, though, claims he remains the NFL’s fastest player, listing Tyreek Hill...

Getty Images The Colts added former Chiefs pass rusher Justin Houston earlier this offseason and they signed one of his teammates from Kansas City on Tuesday. The team announced that they have signed 2016 sixth-round pick Dadi Nicolas to their 90-man roster. Cornerback Jamal Peters was waived...

Getty Images Safety Juan Thornhill signed his four-year rookie contract with the Chiefs, the second-round pick announced on social media. The Chiefs already announced deals with second-round receiver Mecole Hardman, sixth-round defensive back Rashad Fenton, sixth-round running back Darwin...

Getty Images Despite the Cardinals’ insistence that Patrick Peterson will remain in Arizona, talk that he could be traded has not gone away. The Arizona Republic published a roundup of the rumors, which include former NFL player Antonio Bryant continuing his Twitter campaign that Peterson will...

Getty Images EJ Manuel‘s bid for a spot on the Chiefs roster has come to an end. The choice to end that bid was made by Manuel rather than the team. Field Yates of ESPN reports that Manuel has decided to retire from the NFL. Buffalo made Manuel the 16th overall pick of the 2013 draft and he...

Getty Images Former Chiefs head coach and longtime NFL assistant coach Gunther Cunningham has died. Cunningham died on Saturday after a brief illness. He was 72 years old and is survived by his wife, children and grandson among other family members and loved ones. Cunningham was born in...

Getty Images Wide receiver Sammie Coates‘ stay in Kansas City came to an end on Friday. Field Yates of ESPN reports that the Chiefs have released Coates. He signed with the team in February after spending most of last season with the Texans. Coates played 12 games for the Texans, but only saw...

Getty Images Rams coach Sean McVay recently admitted to working hard but not working smart when preparing to face Patriots coach Bill Belichick. Facing the best coach in the history of football (and perhaps organized sports) can do that to an opponent. Belichick is simply hard to beat, for a...

Getty Images The Chiefs got wide receiver Mecole Hardman on the field for the first time since trading up to draft him in the second round and his first impression could have been better. Head coach Andy Reid called Hardman’s first attempt to run a dagger route “brutal,” but the rest of the...

Getty Images The Chiefs signed two players who tried out at their rookie minicamp. Florida Atlantic defensive backs Herb Miller III and Andrew Soroh (pictured) announced on social media that Kansas City has awarded them a contract. The Chiefs also added running back Marcus Marshall after a...

Getty Images The Chiefs announced four signings and the four corresponding departures Tuesday. The signings of three players who won jobs at the rookie minicamp — running back Marcus Marshall, defensive back Herb Miller and defensive back Andrew Soroh — already were reported. Add receiver...

Getty Images It this were a Sunday during the regular season, the pregame shows would be rife with reports regarding the status of Tyreek Hill. Then again, if this were a Sunday during the regular season, there would be nothing to report because Tyreek Hill already would be on the Commissioner...