Patrick Mahomes defended the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs' resolution to re-sign working again Kareem Hunt years after he was caught on digital camera assaulting a girl.
Hunt, 30, signed with the Chiefs in September 2024 after an harm to working again Isiah Pacheco.
The choice got here practically six years after Kansas Metropolis launched Hunt after TMZ posted a video in November 2018 that confirmed him shoving and kicking a girl inside a Cleveland resort in February of that 12 months.
No arrests have been made and no prices have been filed.
“What he did was unsuitable, however I do know in his coronary heart he isn't a foul individual,” Mahomes, 29, mentioned throughout the second episode of The Kingdom, premiering Thursday, August 14, at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN. ”It's how one can turn out to be higher and be taught from them. I feel that's one thing that he embraced. He wasn't going to let that one unhealthy resolution outline who he's as an individual.”
Chiefs head coach, Andy Reid, who was instrumental in bringing Hunt again to Kansas Metropolis, defined why he felt Hunt was deserving of one other shot.
“He realized a lesson,” Reid, 67, mentioned on the sequence. “Too many individuals don't get a second probability after which they return they usually begin doing unhealthy issues. They don't even have a possibility to achieve success.”
Reid added, “He did unsuitable. He knew he did unsuitable. You may't do this. Any individual's gotta train you you can't do this. He paid for that. We most likely all run into highway blocks someplace. Some extra drastic than others. He needed to begin over and do it the correct method.”
Kareem Hunt of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs celebrates his landing run with Patrick Mahomes throughout the first quarter towards the Buffalo Payments within the AFC Championship Sport at GEHA Subject at Arrowhead Stadium on January 26, 2025 in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri. Jamie Squire/Getty Photos
After being launched by the Chiefs, Hunt performed three seasons with the Cleveland Browns.
Hunt made his debut with the Browns in Week 10 of the 2019 season after being suspended for the primary eight video games of the season for violating the league's private conduct coverage in relation to the resort assault video, whereas additionally recovering from sports activities hernia surgical procedure.
“If you get a second probability, you simply wish to take advantage of the chance,” Hunt mentioned on The Kingdom. “As a result of I by no means thought I'd be again in Kansas Metropolis.”
In reflecting again on the resort incident, Hunt mentioned he was “so upset about the entire state of affairs. I want I might return in time and deal with it a lotta bit totally different.”
Hunt mentioned he was “afraid of how all people checked out me” within the aftermath of the video's launch, saying he “didn't even depart the home” for some time.
Because the Philadelphia Eagles have been gearing up for the season in the summertime of 2012, tragedy struck the workforce's then-head coach, Andy Reid, and his household. “We have been on the brink of play a preseason recreation that week,” former Eagles director of professional personnel, Lewis Riddick, recalled in episode 2 of The Kingdom, premiering Thursday, August […]
“You may't erase historical past,” Hunt mentioned. “When it's all mentioned and achieved, it's achieved. You may't return in time.”
The working again made his 2024 debut with the Chiefs on September 29 towards the Los Angeles Chargers and was an everyday for the remainder of the season, together with the workforce's Tremendous Bowl LIX loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Hunt signed a one-year contract extension with the Chiefs price as much as $2.5 million in March.
The primary two episodes of The Kingdom premiere Thursday, August 14, on ESPN at 9 and 10 p.m. ET, with episodes 3 and 4 premiering on Tuesday, August 19, and episodes 5 and 6 premiering on Wednesday, August 20.
