After the 2006 draft, there was a prevailing thought around Kansas City that the team had drafted their starting safeties of the future: Bernard Pollard and Jarrad Page. This season Pollard is in Houston and Page is sitting at home. Bob Gretz writes this morning that the two safeties are still linked four years later. [...]
The season grades have started to roll in for the Kansas City Chiefs and is headlined by The Star’s Jason Whitlock. As you can see by the person that gets the second best score (Charles was first), there seems to be a familiar person on Whitlock’s mind. 92 Chan Gailey, offensive coordinator: Smartest man at [...]
After being cut by the Chiefs, safety Bernard Pollard eventually found a new home with the Houston Texans. Could another former Kansas City defender follow him to Texas? The Houston Texans cut linebacker Buster Davis today and auditioned four veteran free agent linebackers, according to a league source. The Texans also worked out veteran linebackers [...]
Former Kansas City Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard has signed a contract with the Houston Texans. In order to make room for Pollard on the roster, the Texans have placed G Chester Pitts on injured reserved. Pitts just underwent major knee surgery that ended his season. Pollard, a second round pick in 2006, started all 16 [...]
The Kansas City Chiefs — along with every other team in the league — made their roster cuts to meet the league maximum of 53 players. There were a couple of surprises on the list. Of the 14 players cut, 6 were from the offensive side of the ball: TE Tom Crabtree, G Darryl Harris, [...]
So far in training camp the Chiefs defense has outperformed the offense. As Adam Teicher reports, a big reason for that is the play of safeties Bernard Pollard and Jarrad Page, two players Kansas City is counting on in 2009. The Chiefs drafted both players in 2006, Pollard in the second round and Page in [...]
National writers are making their tour through training camps and this past Wednesday it was Peter King from Sports Illustrated visiting River Falls. And according to King’s MMQB column, Bernard Pollard came eerily close to a repeat of the play that gave Matt Cassel his chance to play last year in New England. It’s midway [...]
Former Yale University All-American and Chiefs mini-camp participant Bobby Abare has been named linebackers coach at Wagner College. Abare was a Buck Buchanan Award Finalist (Top Defensive Player), a Walter Camp First-team All-America and a Sporting Network Second-team All-America selection in 2008. A First-team All-Ivy and All-New England selection, he led Yale with 86 tackles [...]
Tony Gonzalez is long gone, but left in his wake were several players vying for his starting spot. As Kent Babb notes, the competition for that spot is fiercer than coach Todd Haley might have predicted. The starting job was supposed to be Brad Cottam’s job to take. Now, it could go to any of [...]
Last week the story surrounding Tom Brady was his complete absence from the Patriots workouts due to his knee rehabilitation. Yesterday, Brady finally returned to football activities and spoke out for the first time at length about his injury and trail back. SI’s Peter King has a lengthy discussion with Brady in this week’s issue [...]
