When Kendall Blanton told his father, Jerry, a former Chiefs linebacker, that he wanted to be a tight end, the dad suggested a fellow Chief for his son to model himself after.
Not Tony Gonzalez, one of the greatest to ever play the position, or current Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, considered one of the NFL’s best.
Instead, Jerry Blanton told his son to research Johnathan Hayes, his former teammate in the 1980s and the Cincinnati Bengals’ tight ends coach.
“(Haynes) couldn’t catch a cold, but he could block,” Jerry Blanton told The Star.