The Kansas City Chiefs re-signed linebacker Jack Cochrane to a one-year contract on Friday.
The restricted free agent agreed to the $3.263 million offer tendered by the team last month.
Cochrane, 26, appeared in 15 regular-season games last season, mostly on special teams.
The two-time Super Bowl champion has 42 tackles in 47 games (one start) since going undrafted in 2022.
Cochrane has played 895 career snaps on special teams and 189 on defense, including just nine in 2024.
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The Kansas City Chiefs are bringing back free agent safety Mike Edwards on a one-year deal, NFL Network reported on Thursday.
Edwards, 28, played for the Chiefs’ Super Bowl championship team during the 2023 campaign. He split last season with the Buffalo Bills and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
A third-round pick by Tampa Bay in 2019, Edwards has recorded 247 tackles, eight interceptions and four defensive touchdowns in 83 games (30 starts) with the Buccaneers (2019-22, 2024), Chiefs and Bills.
He won Super Bowl LV with Tampa Bay and Super Bowl LVIII with Kansas City.
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The Kansas City Chiefs have asked the NFL to make them a fixture of the Christmas Day lineup, The Athletic reported Wednesday.
Much like the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving, the Chiefs wish to become a permanent staple on the Dec. 25 holiday.
Kansas City played games on Christmas in 2023 and 2024, with last year’s win at Pittsburgh drawing 24.1 million viewers across Netflix and local CBS stations in the participating markets.
The NFL confirmed earlier this week that three games will be played on Christmas (a Thursday) in 2025, two on Netflix followed by the nightcap on Amazon Prime.
According to The Athletic, the Chiefs are expected to be part of that tripleheader.
The report also identified Kansas City as the “No. 1 franchise in consideration” to face the Los Angeles Chargers on Sept. 5 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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The Kansas City Chiefs have re-signed veteran defensive tackle Mike Pennel, ESPN reported Monday.
Terms were not disclosed. Pennel, 33, is heading into his 12th NFL season and fifth with the Chiefs.
He played on a one-year, $1.2 million deal last season and recorded a career-high 3.0 sacks with 25 tackles in 17 games (seven starts) for Kansas City.
The two-time Super Bowl champion has 5.0 sacks, 231 tackles and three forced fumbles in 138 games (25 starts) with the Green Bay Packers (2014-16), New York Jets (2017-18), Chiefs (2019-20, 2023-24), Atlanta Falcons (2021) and Chicago Bears (2022).
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The Kansas City Chiefs are re-signing defensive end Charles Omenihu to a one-year, $7 million deal, ESPN reported.
Omenihu, 27, tallied one sack in six games (one start) during the 2024 regular season and added one sack and one forced fumble during the Chiefs’ three-game postseason run.
He missed the first 11 games last season while rehabbing from a torn ACL suffered in the AFC Championship Game victory at Baltimore on Jan. 28, 2024.
During his first season with Kansas City in 2023, Omenihu missed the first six games while serving a suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy. He was arrested in January 2023 on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic assault.
A fifth-round draft pick by Houston in 2019, Omenihu has 19.5 sacks, 53 quarterback hits, 101 tackles and six forced fumbles in 78 games (12 starts) with the Texans (2019-21), San Francisco 49ers (2021-22) and Chiefs.
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Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce said he won’t make any swift decisions about his NFL future following a disappointing Super Bowl LIX loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Kelce, 35, was a non-factor in the Chiefs’ failed attempt at a historic threepeat, finishing with four catches for 39 yards on Sunday in New Orleans.
“I know everybody wants to know whether I’m playing next year and right now, I’m just kicking everything down the road. I’m kicking every can I can down the road. I’m not making any crazy decisions,” Kelce said on the latest episode of his “New Heights” podcast released Wednesday.
The 10-time Pro Bowl selection and four-time first-team All-Pro carries a $19.8 million cap hit in the final season of his contract in 2025, which would be his 13th NFL campaign.
Kelce co-hosts the popular podcast with his brother Jason Kelce, the longtime Eagles center who retired before the 2024 season.
Travis Kelce said many times during the weeks leading up to fifth Super Bowl appearance that he planned to return in 2025, but acknowledged that the extra grind of yet another long postseason run takes a toll.
“I’ve been fortunate over the past five, six years, I’ve played more football than anybody,” he said. “It’s because of the people that are in that building. The fact that we keep going to these AFC Championships and these Super Bowls, that means I’m playing an extra three games more than everybody else in the entire league. That’s a lot of wear and tear on your body and it’s a lot of time spent in the building, focusing on your craft, focusing on the task at hand and every challenge that you set up for yourself.”
Kelce caught 97 passes during the 2024 regular season for 823 yards, his lowest total since he had 862 in 2014. He posted seven straight 1,000-yard campaigns from 2016-22.
“As you see yourself or not feel yourself have the success you once had, it’s a tough pill to swallow,” he said. “For that not to be there in the biggest moments, knowing your team’s counting on you, those are all extremely hard things … it’s just a tough reality.
“That process can be grueling. It can weigh on you, it can make you better, it can drive you crazy at the same time. And right now, it’s one of those things where it was driving me crazy this year. It happens as you kind of tail off towards the back nine of your career as SVP [ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt] would say.”
Kelce, a third-round draft pick by Kansas City in 2013, has 1,004 receptions for 12,151 yards and 77 touchdowns in 175 regular season games. He has another 178 catches for 2,078 yards and 20 touchdowns — all playoff records — in 25 postseason starts.
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