In his opening statement to reporters before the practice began, head coach Andy Reid covered the players who would miss Thursday\u2019s session.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe guys who won\u2019t go today [include] Kareem Hunt, who has a bone bruise on his knee,\u201d he announced. \u201cHe\u2019s going to be OK, but we\u2019ll have him sit out today. And Trey [Smith]. [He\u2019s] got low back spasms. It\u2019s getting better. We\u2019ll just see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then Reid moved on to the situation for which everyone has been seeking clarification: left tackle Josh Simmons\u2019 mysterious absence. Reid said little about it \u2014 but compared to his previous statements, it was an avalanche of information.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s communication,\u201d said Reid. \u201cI\u2019m not going to get into all of it. Everything\u2019s positive; it\u2019s not a negative situation. He\u2019s taking care of family.\u201d<\/p>\n
So for the first time, Reid confirmed that Simmons\u2019 absence \u2014 which has previously been characterized only as \u201cpersonal\u201d \u2014 has something to do with a family member. While this still falls well short of a precise answer about why Simmons has missed the last two games, it does eliminate several different classes of speculation about the situation.<\/p>\n
Later, the coach was asked if the team had any indication of a timeline for Simmons\u2019 return. Reid sidestepped the question.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been positive,\u201d he repeated. \u201cHe\u2019s just taking care of business. That\u2019s the main thing, right here. When you deal with this, that\u2019s what you do. And he\u2019s been very good about communicating it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his opening statement to reporters before the practice began, head coach Andy Reid covered the players who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[15977,24782,349,99],"class_list":["post-248555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-injuries","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}