Joshua Williams says Chiefs will play in Germany in 2023

Rookie cornerback Joshua Williams says he has been told that the Kansas City Chiefs will be playing in Germany in 2023 as expected.

The Kansas City Chiefs are one of four teams that were awarded the ability to play and market themselves in Germany earlier this year as part of the National Football League’s international expansion. Now it appears all but certain that the Chiefs will end up playing there in 2023 as part of their official regular-season schedule for next year.

While most fans would have assumed this was already the case given that the Chiefs were left out of the international mix in ’22, it was still notable that Chiefs cornerback Joshua Williams recently spoke on a video with confidence that the franchise would be playing a game in Germany at some point.

The poster of the interview clip with Williams, who was the fourth-round pick of the Chiefs in April, says Williams was talking to a cousin of Las Vegas Raiders fullback Jakob Johnson. Johnson is actually German himself, having been born in Stuttgart. Here’s the video clip mentioned above:

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"“There will be next year. You know, it’s gonna be played in Germany. I’m not sure which city but I’m excited. I’ve never been to Germany. I’ve got family and they said they loved it there. They said it’s beautiful, so I’m excited to go there and play a game.”"

Earlier this year, the NFL announced that the Chiefs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Carolina Panthers, and New England Patriots were the four teams that would invest in Germany as a new international market for the sport. The league also announced that games would be held there every year for the next four seasons, with sites alternating between Frankfurt and Munich. Given that Munich is hosting the Seattle Seahawks against the Bucs in ’22, it stands to reason that the Chiefs will host a home game in Frankfurt in 2023—the game to which Williams is referring.