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By now you may have heard that Kansas City wide receiver Xavier Worthy was arrested in Texas and booked on assault charges. We always need to be careful in moments like this. What’s true, what’s accurate, what’s false isn’t always immediately known. Just because the police say something doesn’t make it so.
But this is what we do know for a fact. There’s some sort of problem in Kansas City with players and arrests in the offseason. This isn’t to say the organization is the only NFL franchise with problems (hello: Cleveland and Baltimore). There’s just something that seems off in Kansas City. Something weird. Something disturbing.
The team has a reputation for being a classy organization and there’s justification for that. In most ways, it is. Yet a message isn’t getting through to players about how to stay out of trouble once the season ends. There’s some type of massive disconnect happening and coach Andy Reid and that front office needs to figure out how to fix it.
Because while some of these arrests are minor, others are immensely disturbing stuff. Like, horrible stuff. The teams also seems incapable of putting a stop to it.
Last year, a number of Kansas City players were arrested in the offseason.
Wide receiver Rashee Rice last April was arrested for his involvement in a multi-car crash while racing a Lamborghini in Dallas. He was also suspected of assaulting a photographer at a Dallas nightclub in May. The alleged victim did not press charges.
The team released defensive lineman Isaiah Buggs last June, eight days after he was arrested on burglary and domestic violence charges. He was later sentenced to hard labor after a conviction on two counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty charges.
“A year of hard labor” sounds like something from The Longest Yard. It’s not. It’s just another Kansas City offseason.
Two Kansas City players were arrested for marijuana possession last offseason. Those charges were later dropped.
Now, there’s Worthy.
“We are aware of the allegation that led to Mr. Worthy’s arrest,” said Worthy’s attorney, Sam Basset, in part, in a statement to the Austin American Statesman’s Cedric Golden. “We are working with law enforcement in Williamson County to ensure they have the benefit of the totality of circumstances that led to this allegation.””We will continue to cooperate with the Williamson County authorities as we have full faith that their thorough investigation will support Mr. Worthy’s innocence.”
The NFL told USA TODAY Sports in a statement: “We are aware of the matter and have been in contact with the club.”
Again, we don’t know what happened. What we do know is there’s another Kansas City player arrest.
Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
The team needs to make some kind of public statement beyond what they’ve said after Worthy’s arrest which was we’re checking things out, we’ll get back to you.
There needs to be both an internal and public reckoning of what is happening here. This isn’t holding Kansas City to a different standard.
This is holding them to the most minimum of ones.
