{"id":307558,"date":"2025-10-16T08:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/307558\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:12:15","slug":"chiefs-roster-left-tackle-josh-simmons-absent-from-practice-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/307558\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs Roster: Left tackle Josh Simmons absent from practice on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In his opening remarks to reporters during Wednesday\u2019s media availability, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrowheadpride.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>\u2019 head coach Andy Reid had unexpected news \u2014 but said little about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAs far as the Josh Simmons situation goes, I\u2019m not going to comment on it today,\u201c said Reid. \u201d[General Manager Brett] Veach is handling everything there \u2014 and we\u2019ll leave it at that.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What, exactly, is the situation surrounding the team\u2019s starting left tackle?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At this point, we can only speculate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Starting left tackle Josh Simmons was added to the injury report with a <strong>personal<\/strong> designation just before 2 p.m. Arrowhead Time on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Before Wednesday\u2019s practice, Reid could not be persuaded to give more details, refusing to even say whether Simmons would be available for that day\u2019s practice. We only confirmed Simmons had been absent from practice \u2014 officially listed as <strong>not injury related-personal<\/strong> \u2014 with the release of Wednesday\u2019s injury report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In his turn at the podium, quarterback Patrick Mahomes followed his head coach\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019ll keep conversations between us,\u201d Mahomes said of his recent contacts with his left tackle. \u201cI\u2019m always praying for him. I pray for all my teammates, so I\u2019m always praying for him. I\u2019ll just keep everything else private between us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fortunately for the Chiefs\u2019 offense, swing tackle Jaylon Moore played well while filling in for Simmons against the Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So far, Simmons\u2019 career trajectory has been one to remember. He is valuable to Kansas City well beyond 2025, so we can expect the team to use whatever resources are needed to help him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his opening remarks to reporters during Wednesday\u2019s media availability, Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 head coach Andy Reid had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":307559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[63890,4161,3012,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-307558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-injuries","9":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","10":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-roster","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115382842086279922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}