{"id":111558,"date":"2025-10-17T06:26:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=111558"},"modified":"2025-10-17T06:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:26:40","slug":"gridiron-shockwave-chiefs-camp-in-disbelief-as-josh-simmons-situation-spirals-out-of-control-teammates-reportedly-stunned-and-silent-amid-emergency-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=111558","title":{"rendered":"GRIDIRON SHOCKWAVE: Chiefs camp in disbelief as Josh Simmons\u2019 situation spirals out of control \u2014 teammates reportedly \u201cstunned and silent\u201d amid emergency talks \u2014 something massive is unfolding behind closed doors..ll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CHiefs-Josh-Simmons-Serious.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CHiefs-Josh-Simmons-Serious.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CHiefs-Josh-Simmons-Serious.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CHiefs-Josh-Simmons-Serious.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Chiefs Josh Simmons Situation Described as \u2018Extremely Serious'\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Josh Simmons of the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The mystery around the absence of Kansas City Chiefs rookie offensive lineman Josh Simmons only grew more mysterious on Thursday when the 2025 first-round draft pick out of Ohio State remained missing from practice for another day, according to the team.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Thursday, a longtime Chiefs insider who covers the team for ESPN, while offering no details or specifics, described the Simmons situation as \u201cextremely serious\u201d and \u201ca family matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The insider, Nate Taylor, said that he was \u201cfearful\u201d about whatever was causing Simmons absence.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Taylor reported that Simmons had returned to California, and that \u201che left at a time on Sunday that is extremely unusual. I\u2019m not sure when he\u2019s coming back and as of right now the team doesn\u2019t know when he\u2019s coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Reid, Players Stay Mum on Simmons Mystery<\/h2>\n<p>Coach Andy Reid and Simmons\u2019 teammates have all declined to offer any public comments on Simmons\u2019 situation, beyond expressing sympathy with the 22-year-old from San Diego, California. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes told reporters on Wednesday that any knowledge he had of the specifics behind Simmons\u2019 absence would remain \u201cprivate,\u201d but added that he would be \u201cpraying for\u201d his apparently troubled teammate.<\/p>\n<p>Reid also indicted that there was no timetable for Simmons\u2019 return to the team.<\/p>\n<p>Reid told reporters that he was \u201cnot going to comment on\u201d Simmons\u2019 situation, adding that Chiefs general manager Brett Veach \u201cis handling everything there. And we\u2019ll leave it at that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Shifting Stories on Official Injury Report<\/h2>\n<p>Simmons was listed as \u201cquestionable\u201d on the Chiefs\u2019 injury report prior to the defending AFC champions\u2019 Sunday night game against the Detroit Lions. About two hours before kickoff, his status was downgraded to \u201cout,\u201d but in a release the Chiefs said that Simmons absence from the game was not injury related, but \u201cpersonal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simmons played in all five of the Chiefs games this season prior to Sunday, and did not miss a game in three seasons at Ohio State until 2024 when he suffered a ruptured patellar tendon in his left knee. The knee injury ended his season after six games.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Kansas City radio station 96.5 The Fan on Thursday, Taylor said rather cryptically of Simmons that \u201chis blip on the injury report hours before kickoff in the stadium in Jacksonville is related to what he\u2019s dealing with now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Week Five, the Chiefs played a road game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, losing that contest 31-28. The \u201cblip\u201d referred to by Taylor appears to be the fact that Simmons was a late addition to the Kansas City injury report, just hours before kickoff in Jacksonville, due to what was listed as an \u201cillness.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Insider Says He is \u2018Fearful\u2019 Over Situation<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m fearful because we don\u2019t have all the answers right now, and that makes the outcome perhaps grim,\u201d Taylor said in the radio interview. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine what he\u2019s going through, based on what I\u2019ve heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taylor also said that fans should understand that \u201cthis is really difficult for Josh,\u201d but that no one should question that Simmons \u201cloves football\u201d and the situation is not an indicator that he \u201cdoesn\u2019t care about his teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is extremely serious and if it gets resolved, who knows, a month from now, he could be back on the field,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cIf he has a chance to get back to normalcy and get back to football, he will do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taylor did not specify whether, based on the information he had received, the Chiefs\u2019 initial report of an \u201cillness\u201d for Simmons was accurate, or whether the word was being used by the team as a euphemism for whatever the actual problem being experienced by Simmons may be.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jonathan Vankin JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist and writer who now covers baseball and other sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Press Association awards for sports feature writing. He was a sports editor and writer at The Daily Yomiuri in Tokyo, Japan, covering Japan Pro Baseball, boxing, sumo and other sports. 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