The Kansas City Chiefs have placed all-time franchise leading running back Jamaal Charles on injured reserve because of a bad knee.
This is likely the way it ends. For Charles, who is approaching 30 years old, not too many running backs are coming back from a second ACL surgery, especially one that your body isn’t responding to.
The Chiefs made the move so many of us feared when head coach Andy Reid told the media that Charles would be visiting with Dr. James Andrews. The team has officially put him on the Injured Reserve list, putting him out for a minimum of eight weeks. If you do the math, he could conceivably come back for the postseason.
The Chiefs have placed RB Jamaal Charles on IR, per a league source.
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All that said, chances are that Charles and the Chiefs are about to part ways. He will be due $7 million for next year, and not a cent of it is guaranteed. Kansas City has to try to pay both Dontari Poe and Eric Berry, and that money would go a long way toward those pursuits.
Of course, we will have so much more on this story in the coming hours and days. This is very likely the end of a legend in Kansas City, a man who could end up in the Hall of Fame one day.