“His mind was made up,” Johnson said. “They already had a game plan of what they wanted to do with me and I bought out my last year—I didn’t really have a contract with the Chiefs, so if I wanted to do another year with the Chiefs, we’d have to negotiate and work on something, and of course, I would have bended a lot just to stay there.”
On Tuesday, the Kansas City Chiefs announced that they would not bring back longtime 14-year veteran Derrick Johnson when his contract voids on March 14, the start of the new league year.