KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Quarterback Brodie Croyle, centre Rudy Niswanger and tackle Ryan O'Callaghan have signed restricted free agent tenders with the Kansas City Chiefs.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Quarterback Brodie Croyle, centre Rudy Niswanger and tackle Ryan O'Callaghan have signed restricted free agent tenders with the Kansas City Chiefs. Quarterback Brodie Croyle, center Rudy Niswanger and tackle Ryan O'Callaghan have signed restricted free agent tenders with the Kansas City Chiefs. The signings were announced Thursday. Croyle lost his starting job last year when the Chiefs traded for Matt Cassel. He missed most of 2008 with a knee injury after being designated the starting quarterback. If Thomas Jones is worried about sharing the ball with Jamaal Charles, he's not saying. The newest addition to a suddenly crowded Kansas City backfield insisted Monday that personal numbers are not uppermost in his mind. "I signed here to help the team win," said Jones, who agreed to a two-year, $5 million free agent contract last month. The injury occurred at the end of the 2009 preseason. Chiefs’ cornerback Brandon Flowers landed badly and what happened inside his shoulder was not good. It was messed up, with the exact nature of the mess one of those state secrets around football teams. But it was safe to say that from that day, the pain never went away. Flowers was scratched from the season opener in Baltimore, but then played the final 15 games on the schedule. He did it with a great deal of discomfort, probably a pain-killing shot or two, but with the attitude that he had to play. There was never a consideration on his part given to shutting it down for the season, even in the second half of the year when the Chiefs were so far out of contention they couldn’t see second place in the AFC West from their vantage… |
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