{"id":732044,"date":"2026-06-12T14:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/732044\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:51:19","slug":"nfl-will-not-discipline-chiefs-assistant-dave-merritt-after-domestic-battery-case-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/732044\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL will not discipline Chiefs assistant Dave Merritt after domestic battery case dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chiefs;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chiefs&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chiefs<\/a> defensive backs coach Dave Merritt is not facing discipline under the NFL&#8217;s personal conduct policy after a domestic battery charge against him was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL found insufficient evidence of a violation of the policy, according to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Merritt was charged in April after he had been accused of causing bodily harm to his daughter. He pleaded not guilty, and the case was dismissed in May.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL sometimes imposes league discipline even if a player or coach does not face criminal charges, but in this case, Merritt is free to resume coaching.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old Merritt has been the Chiefs\u2019 defensive backs coach since 2019. He has previously held NFL coaching jobs with the Cardinals, Giants and Jets, and spent time as a college assistant coach. He was a 1993 seventh-round pick of the Dolphins and had a brief NFL playing career before going into coaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chiefs defensive backs coach Dave Merritt is not facing discipline under the NFL&#8217;s personal conduct policy after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,5386,354257,228981,354258,12418,593,2361,234910,85],"class_list":["post-732044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chiefs","tag-dave-merritt","tag-defensive-backs-coach","tag-domestic-battery-charge","tag-mike-garafolo","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-network","tag-personal-conduct-policy","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}