News travels fast these days, especially when it’s bad. Tamba Hali was on his phone at the Chiefs’ practice facility Thursday when he saw that former teammate Joe McKnight had been killed, apparently in a road rage incident, and Hali promptly told Derrick Johnson and other teammates.
The news caused a clearly-saddened Johnson to shake his head Friday.
“He had a son, too,” Johnson, an inside linebacker, said of McKnight “Nobody should even go through that. Just a senseless act.”
Chiefs coach Andy Reid agreed, calling McKnight’s death “tragic.”
“This world is a bit crazy right now — just a bit crazy,” Reid said.