Chiefs guard Jordan Devey is musical. To be precise, he plays the tuba.
“It was something I did in high school,” Devey said. “I just stuck with it. My parents said if sports don’t wind up providing a scholarship, music is a good opportunity.”
Music wasn’t simply an outlet for Devey, it was his primary diversion during a time when he could not play football after developing Osgood-Schlatters, a disease that is a common cause of knee pain in growing adolescents. He developed the disease while playing football in junior high school.
That began a long period without sports for Devey.