Tamba Hali's best days as an NFL player are long behind him and it has been an assumption for months he would be released this year by the Kansas City Chiefs.
That doesn’t diminish the emotional impact that came Monday as the Chiefs made the news official. The Chiefs are sending away Hali, their first-round draft pick in 2006 and the No. 2 on their list of all-time sack leaders behind only Pro Football Hall of Famer Derrick Thomas.
There was no room for Hali in Kansas City anymore, not at what would have been a 2018 salary-cap cost of about $9.