Five Chiefs who have played their last game in Kansas City
By KC Proctor
Daniel Sorensen
Dirty Dan, thank you for your service. You will always be a champion, and the play you made on the fake punt in the 2020 divisional round will live on in Chiefs lore forever.
Unfortunately for the undrafted safety from BYU, there were no roses at Sorensen’s feet as he exited stage left. He spent a good deal of the 2021 regular season ranked among the bottom ten safeties in football per advanced stats and was drug through the mud (deservedly so) by Chiefs Kingdom throughout the rocky 3-4 start to the season.
Signing Sorensen to a one-year deal worth $2.46M in the 2021 offseason was strictly a move to shore up depth at the safety position. There was uncertainty surrounding Juan Thornhill who never quite seemed to return to 100% after his knee surgery in early 2020. Unfortunately for Dan, Steve Spagnuolo had other plans, particularly early on in the season. The depth signing somehow turned into an intricate part of the secondary, and with age battling against an already less-than-impressive athletic build out, Sorensen was exposed time and again in coverage.
Sorensen’s play seemed to cost the Chiefs momentum on a regular basis, and in some cases, his poor effort could even be directly held responsible for losses. With Thornhill’s return to full speed, particularly in the latter half of the 2021 campaign, it is safe to say that the hitman will be on the outside looking in come March 16th.