Shortly before the Chiefs stretched for their first session of organized team activities Tuesday, Mike DeVito was determined to seek out the man in white, wearing No. 56.
It had been a long nine months of rehab for he and Derrick Johnson, two key veterans who each saw their 2014 seasons wiped out by Achilles’ injuries in a week-one loss to Tennessee.
So on this bright and sunny day — in which they were finally out of football purgatory and back on the field — they celebrated the occasion with a simple-but-enthusiastic high five.
“Every time we walk by each other, we’re giving each other high fives, man,” said Johnson, an inside linebacker who turns 33 in November.