Something Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs offer that you don’t often see elsewhere is speaking opportunities for the team’s head athletic trainer.
For the Chiefs, that’s vice president of sports medicine and performance Rick Burkholder, who took the podium Monday to talk through some of the Chiefs’ lingering injuries entering 2018 training camp in St. Joseph:
OLB Dee Ford (back)
“Dee Ford is here. He’s doing great. We anticipate that he’s going to be OK as we get into pads.”
C Mitch Morse (foot)
“Morse, the same thing (as Ford), he’s healed up.