All-Pro tight end re-ups with Chiefs for reported $34.25m Kelce, 34, is Kansas City’s all-time leader in receiving yards The Chiefs signed Travis Kelce to a two-year contract extension on Monday that general manager Brett Veach said would make him the league’s highest-paid tight end while keeping him with the Super Bowl champions through the 2027 season. Kelce signed a four-year, $57.25m extension with Kansas City in 2020, which followed a $46m, five-year deal that he signed in 2016. The new extension would keep the 34-year-old Kelce with the club until he is 38 years old ..read more

Chiefs’ Rice faces eight charges in relation to crash Four people were left with minor injuries after incident Dallas police said Wednesday that Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice faces charges including aggravated assault after he and another speeding driver of a sports car caused a chain-reaction crash on a Dallas highway. Police said that arrest warrants have been issued for the 23-year-old for one count of aggravated assault, one count of collision involving serious bodily injury and six counts of collision involving injury. Rice’s attorney, Texas state senator Royce West, said ..read more

Lawyer says receiver was driving Lamborghini in crash Four people were left with minor injuries after incident Kansas City Chiefs’ player Rashee Rice was the driver of one of two speeding sports cars who left after causing a chain-reaction crash on a Dallas highway over the weekend, the wide receiver’s attorney said Thursday. Why Rice left the crash Saturday was “a good question that’s still being investigated”, said Rice’s attorney, Texas state senator Royce West, but he declined to elaborate. West expects charges to be filed against Rice, who was driving a Lamborghini sport utility vehicle ..read more

Receiver leased Lamborghini involved in weekend incident Four people were left with minor injuries after crash Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice said on Wednesday that he takes “full responsibility” for his part in a weekend incident involving speeding sports cars that caused a chain-reaction crash on a Dallas highway. Rice leased a Lamborghini SUV that police said was speeding along with a Corvette on North Central Expressway on Saturday. The crash ultimately involved six vehicles, police said, and the occupants of the Lamborghini and Corvette left the scene without providing information or ..read more

A vehicle registered to the Chiefs’ receiver was involved in a crash in the Dallas area Police are seeking Kansas City Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice in connection with a car crash in Dallas, according to the Dallas Morning News. A vehicle believed to be registered or leased to Rice was involved in a crash on the North Central Expressway at 6.20pm local time Saturday. Citing law enforcement officials, the Dallas Morning News confirmed police are searching for Rice, 23, but did not disclose details of the collision. Dallas police spokeswoman Kristin Lowman said two cars, a Chevrolet Corvette and a ..read more

New rules around kickoffs are a boost to a player who may sign for the Super Bowl champions. But a practice squad remains his likely destination If ever there was a time, if ever there was a place, for Louis Rees-Zammit to chase his NFL dream, this is it. The former Welsh rugby union star is reportedly nearing a deal to join the Kansas City Chiefs, the back-to-back Super Bowl champions. Rees-Zammit is likely to join the team for their annual training camp, a kind of extended trial as he learns the rigors of the NFL. He will join a 90-man training camp roster that will eventually be whittled do ..read more

Hospital says fans suffered frostbite at Chiefs playoff game Kickoff temperature at Arrowhead was minus-4F (minus-20C) Some of the people who attended the near-record cold Kansas City Chiefs playoff game in January had to undergo amputations after suffering frostbite, a Missouri hospital said Friday. Research Medical Center didn’t provide exact numbers but said in a statement that it treated dozens of people who had experienced frostbite during an 11-day cold snap in January. Twelve of those people – including some who were at the 13 January game – had to undergo amputations involving mostly ..read more

Brother of Super Bowl MVP given six months’ probation Jackson Mahomes, 23, pleaded guilty to battery charge The younger brother of Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has been sentenced to six months’ probation in a case alleging an assault on a woman. Jackson Mahomes, 23, appeared Thursday for his sentencing hearing via video conference and pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of battery, according to online court records. Following his sentence, Jackson Mahomes was taken into the custody of the Johnson County Sheriff’s office, which will determine whet ..read more

Xaviar Michael Babudar faces up to 50 years in jail Crimes took place in states across the midwest A Kansas City Chiefs superfan known as “ChiefsAholic” pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a string of robberies and attempted robberies of banks and credit unions in multiple states. Xaviar Babudar, 29, pleaded guilty in federal court in Kansas City, Missouri, to one count each of money laundering, transporting stolen property across state lines, and bank robbery. Sentencing was scheduled for 10 July and he faces up to 50 years in jail ..read more

Suspects charged with second-degree murder in shooting at Chiefs’ victory parade that left one person dead and 22 injured Two men were charged on Tuesday afternoon with murder in connection with a mass shooting in Kansas City on 14 February that killed one person and wounded 22 others at a rally for the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs, according to prosecutors. As celebrations were winding up for the Chiefs and thousands of fans, after they returned triumphantly having won the Super Bowl in Las Vegas the previous weekend, gunfire erupted among the crowd ..read more