Twitter reacts with appropriate sadness to Jody Fortson’s Achilles injury

K.C. Chiefs fan favorite Jody Fortson went down with a non-contact injury in the third quarter in Week 6 in the team’s game against the Washington Football Team. As he was carted off the field, teammates from the Chiefs sideline came over to wish him well as did a few members of WFT’s own roster. They weren’t the only ones as Chiefs Twitter also came alive to share their frustrations and well wishes for Fortson.

Shortly after he was taken off the field, the team came back with a very quick injury designation of an Achilles injury for Fortson—a tragic diagnosis, to be sure.

Fortson signed with the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent out of Valdosta State back in 2019 and made the team’s practice squad, which was a nice story in itself. Fortson then went on to make the team for another year on the practice squad as he continued to develop into the sort of dynamic big-bodied receiver that the Chiefs clearly envisioned.

This year, then, Fortson was able to make the active roster despite the fact that the club was also keeping three other tight ends like Travis Kelce, Blake Bell, and Noah Gray. It was one of the biggest stories of the Chiefs preseason, and Fortson then rewarded the Chiefs for their trust in him in limited action so far this season with two touchdown catches through the first five games. Even in Week 6, he came up big with a tremendous sideline grab that turned the heads of everyone.

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Unfortunately Fortson then went down on the following play.

The outpouring of grief from Chiefs Kingdom came quickly as fans and media members alike hated to see an injury to anyone, but especially someone so beloved as Fortson.