{"id":618313,"date":"2026-05-02T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618313\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:00:12","slug":"chiefs-decline-felix-anudike-uzomahs-fifth-year-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618313\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs decline Felix Anudike-Uzomah&#8217;s fifth-year option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chiefs have declined the fifth-year option on the contract of defensive end Felix Anudike-Uzomah, according to the NFL\u2019s personnel notice.<\/p>\n<p>It was expected, as the option would have fully guaranteed Anudike-Uzomah $14.5 million for 2027. He is one of nine players to have his fifth-year option declined this year.<\/p>\n<p>Anudike-Uzomah has started only three games since the Chiefs made him the 31st overall pick, and he missed all of last season with a right hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>Anudike-Uzomah has appeared in 34 games, with three starts, totaling eight tackles for loss, three sacks, two forced fumbles and one fumble recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Anudike-Uzomah, 24, has played 550 defensive snaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chiefs have declined the fifth-year option on the contract of defensive end Felix Anudike-Uzomah, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-618313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618313","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=618313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}