Kansas Metropolis Chiefs large receiver Kadarius Toney needed to clear the air that he isn’t lacking Sunday’s AFC Championship Sport in opposition to the Baltimore Ravens on account of his hip harm. As a substitute, he is lacking it as a result of his crew would not need him round.
On Saturday, the 25-year-old was dominated out for Sunday’s contest as a result of beginning of his first baby and a lingering hip harm. Nonetheless, in an emotional and expletive-filled rant on an Instagram livestream early Sunday morning, Toney accused the Chiefs of mendacity about his harm.
“I am not damage,” Toney stated. “None of that s—, save that s— … I am not damage, none of that.”
Toney practiced as a restricted participant this previous week however is ready to overlook his sixth consecutive recreation with an harm designation. On account of hip and ankle points, Toney hasn’t performed since Week 15 in opposition to the Patriots, throughout which he bobbled a fourth-quarter go that led to an interception. Apparently, Kansas Metropolis additionally fabricated the latter harm, in keeping with Toney.
“It [goes] from hip to ankle to this to that,” Toney added, suggesting the Chiefs have made a behavior of adjusting the harm designations he claims they’re mendacity about.
If Kansas Metropolis is mendacity about harm designations, they could possibly be topic to punishment from the NFL, although it is unclear whether or not that would be the case since no different supply has validated Toney’s assertion.
The rant was simply the newest instance of the previous New York Giants first-round choose inflicting a distraction for a crew he is been on since getting into the league in 2021. The Chiefs acquired the oft-injured wideout from the Giants earlier than final season’s commerce deadline, and the preliminary outcomes have been encouraging, contemplating he was a distinction maker in its win over Philadelphia in Tremendous Bowl LVII.
This season, nonetheless, Toney proved why New York was so prepared to chop ties with him rapidly. Except for his Week 15 blunder, Toney dropped a number of key passes in Kansas Metropolis’s season-opening loss to Detroit. Moreover, Toney drew an offsides penalty in Week 14 to negate a go-ahead landing within the Chiefs’ 20-17 loss to Buffalo.
Toney will presumably end his 2023 season with simply 27 receptions for 169 yards and one landing in 13 video games performed. At this level, it feels nearly sure that Toney will not be on Kansas Metropolis’s roster subsequent season, and solely time will inform whether or not his newest boneheaded determination will value him his NFL profession.
