The Chiefs’ rocky offseason following their second consecutive Super Bowl season continues today as Adam Teicher of ESPN reports that second-year offensive tackles Wanya Morris and Chukwuebuka Godrick were both arrested Thursday night. Following arrests for misdemeanor possession of marijuana, Morris and Godrick were booked into jail and released Friday morning on bond. 
Neither lineman played much of a role in Kansas City’s 2023 title. Godrick joined the team as a part of the league’s International Player Pathway Program last year out of Nigeria but failed to make an in-game appearance during the season as a member of the practice squad. He had been granted an international roster exemption for the 2024 season.
Morris actually played some significant snaps as a rookie third-round pick, starting four games near the end of the season as an injury replacement for Donovan Smith. Coming into the 2024 season, Morris was being challenged to compete with second-round rookie draft pick Kingsley Suamataia for the starting left tackle job opposite Jawaan Taylor following the departure of Smith in free agency. If Morris’ arrest leads to any league discipline, consider it a leg up for the rookie out of BYU.
This news comes most unwelcome for a team in Kansas City that has seen their breakout rookie receiver Rashee Rice face a slew of legal trouble in the offseason. As the team was already bracing for a suspension for Rice following eight felony charges stemming from a hit-and-run incident in late-March, Rice upped the ante by becoming the focus of an investigation for an alleged assault at a nightclub in Dallas.
The NFL will allow the legal process to take its course before ultimately coming to a decision on league punishment for the three players. The league has recently laxed its position on punishments for positive marijuana tests, but illegal use, possession, or distribution of drugs is still prohibited in the NFL, and marijuana possession remains illegal in Kansas (where the two were arrested).
Watch the Chiefs release these guys for misdemeanors and keep the one facing multiple felony charges.
Turning into the Georgia bulldogs lmao
The headline was a lot more worrying than the story. Possession of marijuana? Who cares? It’s a misdemeanor and so many places have completely decriminalized it. It’s especially understandable for guys in professions that are incredibly punishing physically, many of whom turn to a lot worse. T’Vondre Sweat pulled a DUI less than three weeks before the draft and still went in the second round amid other concerns. I’m not terribly worried about a lineman enjoying a little weed.
Many places, yes… but apparently not where they were, or perhaps while doing what they were doing (it isn’t clear in the article if they were driving, at home, etc.)
In any event, know the rules where you are, and if you’re making a whole lot of money to play a sport, be extra careful about following them.
So it’s ok to break the law, since you just think it’s a bad law
It’s a misdemeanor that doesn’t hurt anyone and wouldn’t even get them arrested a lot of places. So yeah, that’s a pretty low stakes story to follow a headline about two players getting arrested.
God forbid he didn’t mention God in his arrest sheet, I’m sure the NFL would have charged him with a felony if he did that. NFL is so screwed up with approximately 120 players with felony drug charges on then with no National comments about them from NFL, but call out Harrison Butker on using the word God & Homemaker at a graduation commencement speeh at a Catholic College. N.F.L. stands for something else besides National Football League. Should be National Felon League.
My dude, this is literally an article about a misdemeanor. And the NFL is full of outspoken Christians. One got drafted in the top ten to be a backup. Butker’s speech was full of crap and people responded accordingly.
Top jersey sales. Good for Harrison. Gave one hell of a speech.
Women should be proud whatever path they choose in life, whether it be business oriented or stay at home mother.
And choosing to stay at home shouldn’t be viewed as lesser or wrong, even though many feminist disagree with women choosing that for themselves.
And women being told they can only live a fulfilling life if they dedicate themselves to climbing the business world and challenging the wage gap or breaking barriers in men only industries (society’s current standard of a successful woman) is definitely diabolical in many ways. Women should be free to choose whatever they want in life and shouldn’t be judged for that choice. Yet they are sadly.
Took guts for Butkner to call out how society is damaging women in so many ways these days
Lies about what a successful woman is and can be
Ruining women’s sports especially for the youth of today
Replacing women in the business world with men who think they are women (yes lgtbq+ replaces jobs held by women more often than jobs held by men)
Telling women they can be a single mother reliant on the government for assistance and that “family” isn’t important for upbringing of children in certain communities where it’s acceptable to not be in your child’s lives, despite overwhelming evidence children that come from two parent households do better in the long run.
If you think I’m wrong just remember this
Any time a woman especially in sports makes headlines they get articles written about them like Kim Ng becoming the first woman gm in mlb history. Great accomplishment well deserving. Female coaches too get mentioned.
When’s the last time mlbtr hoopsrumors profootballrumors did something like an expose or interview with wives of players who chose to stay home? Are they also not deserving to be talked to and interviewed? Why? I’m sure a lot of them made sacrifices so their husbands could pursue a professional sports career especially in college. Do their stories or journeys not matter?
Case in point: representation. We deem pursuing careers as successful because that’s who we talk about. We don’t ever talk about stay at home mothers in sports, rarely if it’s ever happened.
This is word salad and a misrepresentation of Butker’s speech.
He gave a hateful speech in front of a group of hateful people…to hell with harrison butker
THats not why Butker got called out so peddle your BS elsewhere
NFL is National Felons League & don’t dare say God bc you end up being callous from NFL officials
Really
Kind of funny since this is your comment on felony/misdemeanor gambling charges, which also hurt no one by your standard and is legal to varying degrees in different states as soon as 18 to bet on things. Plus the NFL is in partnership with gambling businesses more so than they are the weee industry.
“ Sometimes when a guy goes from highly touted prospect to “character question mark,” it’s a non-story and it just means he just rubbed someone the wrong way. And then sometimes it means the guy’s just a real schmuck.”
regarding Kayshon Boutte facing a felony charge of computer fraud and a misdemeanor of gaming prohibited by someone under 21 cause he bet under an alias on 8900 bets while he played at LSU. Victimless crimes. Legal in other places to bet as soon as 18. Yada yada yada. Different attitudes.
These guys on the chiefs are being treated unfairly cause the laws are unjust on weed and it’s legal elsewhere! Hurt no one!
Boutte is a schmuck cause he didn’t follow the laws on gambling! Who cares if he didn’t hurt anyone or if it’s legal elsewhere he should have known better and been less foolish!
Players betting on games is prohibited by the NFL and affects the integrity of the game. It’s dumber and more serious than weed possession.
Marijuana is a gateway drug sir
If they were driving high they should face penalties similar to a DUI.
If they had some around the house, hotel room, whatever.
But law is the law until it changes. You may not agree with it but they still broke the law. It’s similar to getting caught with weed in foreign countries. Their laws are their laws. You’re expected to follow them, even if you disagree or consider them archaic.
Ok. It’s still a misdemeanor, doesn’t hurt others , and is legal in a large number of NFL cities, which signifies that it isn’t a huge character concern, particularly to a team that’s dealt with and even brought in significantly more serious criminals.
Still a law. Still a crime where it happened.
Nobody said it’s a huge character concern or throw the book at them.
But you do gotta be smarter and pay attention to your surroundings.
This is really no different than carrying a gun across different state lines. Different states different rules. What’s legal in Alabama is not legal in New York. And if you don’t follow New York laws you can face felony charges (even though no one was hurt with said gun) for having a gun in your back seat (legal in some states) instead of secured and unloaded and locked away in your trunk.
Do I think New York is too strict on gun laws? Yes. Am
I still going to be aware of the laws and follow em? Yes. My gun nor I have ever hurt anyone either.
And for the record
“But guns kill people!”
Yeah and people die/kill over drug deals gone bad involving things like weed. Moot point.
This is another really obvious false equivalence.
Nobody is arguing for the equivalence of this offence to the other. The argument is the same. Your opinion of the law does not make it any less legal. You can choose to follow the law or not, but you must accept the consequences. Of course, we don’t know every single statute or every single ordinance where we go, but some are fairly common.
For instance, if you are going to engage in some activity that you know is regulated differently from place to place, you should check and see what the regulations are. If you carry a gun across state lines, you need to check what the other state says about you having it. If you carry marijuana into a new state, you should do the same. It’s the same responsibility. You check and see what you’re allowed to do. If you don’t, you have to know that you could get in trouble. You’ve got to respect the laws of where you’re going, even if you don’t like them.
We absolutely do not need to weigh all legal infractions the same way. If you want to call this irresponsible, fine, but these other crimes are a lot more than that.
No, we don’t, and being arrested is certainly not the extent or even the most serious legal consequence of a crime. That’s why some people spend one night in jail, some have to pay to bond out, and some have to stay until their court date. And then, if they’re found guilty, they are sentenced, with more severe sentencing prescribed for more harmful crimes (in theory, and for the most part, in practice, despite several well known and usually well publicized exceptions).
If marijuana was the only thing that they were arrested for, I doubt that they spent more than a night in jail, no matter what jurisdiction they were in. It’s hardly the same as a consequence for a more serious charge. Remember, the arrest is not the sentencing. The real fight is in court, where the real consequences will also be decided. I doubt that this ends with more than a fine or a diversion program, which seems in line with the minor nature of the offense. As I said, and you have pointed out as well, it’s not a serious crime. It is, however, illegal, and it does need some type of consequence to be effective. A night in jail is not a very serious consequence, and as there was likely some other offense that predicated the discovery of the drugs, it probably is even with the combination of the two.
Woah woah look who’s goodie two shoes over here…narc
Cause I don’t feel like paying fines to the government over stupid rules they control in a rigged system? Lmao you living off mommy and daddy money?
“I like when I’m forced to pay extra money to the government cause I can’t follow basic rules” said no one ever.
I’d argue that breaking a an easy to observe law is much more an indicator of stupidity or carelessness than it is a moral outrage. Whatever you think about the law, it’s pretty easy to just not have weed on you in public. These players have certainly been informed of that fact, and yet did it anyway.
It’s like the guys who get busted for failing a drug test that they got told about months in advance. The NFL is literally bending over backwards to not catch them on something relatively minor, and yet some do it anyway. Those players, if they get punished, are punished moreso for the inability to perform to easy expectations more than they are doing something outrageously wrong. Same for these two. I cannot say whether or not they were “treating” their injury pain or whatever at the time, but almost nobody gets arrested for marijuana possession or illegal firearm possession or possession of some other prohibited substance while just minding their business at home…
I would suggest some people are more likely to get bothered and searched more than other. It’s a law on the way out and even in places where it still exists, it’s simply not that big a deal. It’s a lot better than a DUI and we have no shortage of those, including a guy who got drafted in the top 50 just weeks after pulling one.
Funny how my lap dog would defend these guys when his own QB is by his own admittance, a druggie.
Sniffy, you either have to learn to talk trash better or come up with a new personality.
Less than half of murders get solved. Rape kits don’t even get tested.
But plenty of time and resources to arrest these guys, drive them downtown, book them and jail them overnight.
To keep the streets safe.
Good job, Boys.
What do arrests have to do with solving murders?
It is fun to make the chiefs when their headcoach don’t seem care what his players do off the field.
FDA recently moved marijuana from schedule 1 drug to schedule 3, the same level as over-the-counter cold medicine.
On top of that, the president directed AG to release and clear records of federal prisoners who are in for simple possession. Of course, dealers are not so lucky
The president doesn’t have the authority to change laws. Only congress can do that. Bidens attempt to buy more votes with meaningless executive orders are just that, meaningless.
As if any other president, includingTrump, did not use the specific power!
I don’t know how many patrol officers you think are reviewing evidence in murder cases, but if they do happen to see a law being broken, they are still expected to charge it. They also, it’s important to note, do not write those laws, and don’t have any responsibility in making them. Bad law or good law, it’s still there, at least for now.
People have the ability to be cognizant of even stupid laws. This may or may not be one, but these guys surely have the ability to recognize that it’s there, right?
You’re talking to a guy who thinks people should be charged with attempted murder for doing things like speeding and driving recklessly. You’re not exactly dealing with someone that has a full set of marbles. I wouldn’t expect too much “reason or logic” out of them.
Police departments operate with finite resources.
Choosing to focus on revenue collection or vice crime over hard crime is just that…a choice.
Andy isn’t exactly a disciplinarian
If you’re a grown adult you should have some understanding of the concept of “self discipline”. It’s not Andy’s job to hold a players hand through the off season and steer him clear of trouble.
Ya it’s not Andy’s fault his kid killed a lady
You Wanya players to show a little bit more discipline than this.
It’s not that bad of a crime, but it looks pretty stupid when the state next door has legalized marijuana.
Can you imagine living in a pathetic state that still arrests people for mere possession of marijuana? What a sad out of touch place.
As opposed to states full of ignorant stoned people who keep voting for the people destroying their states? Leftism at its finest here.
It’s becoming “The Chiefs Way.”
Celebrating Biden’s Schedule III announcement. You can hardly fault these young men for taking an interest in politics.
The president can’t change laws. Only congress can change laws. Marijuana is not federally legalized.
The Chiefs could find themselves in a bit of trouble if the NFL ever decides to use arrests and suspensions as a playoff tie-breaker.