A difficult offseason for the Kansas City Chiefs continues with the news that two players were arrested for misdemeanor marijuana possession on Thursday.
Offensive tackles Wanya Morris and Chukwuebuka Godrick were released Friday afternoon after posting $2,500 bail, according to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department in Kansas (via Grant Gordon of NFL Media).
The two players were arrested Thursday night by a sheriff’s deputy and taken into custody. Kansas City’s KSHB 41 reports. They were booked around 2 a.m. Friday, according to court records. Morris and Godrick will appear in court on May 23.
Morris was Kansas City’s third-round pick in the 2023 NFL Draft out of Oklahoma. He is expected to compete for the starting left tackle position this season. Godrick joined the Chiefs last season via The path of the international NFL playerwithout ever having played organized football before the 2023 preseason.
The arrests are the latest in a series of troubling developments for the Super Bowl champions this offseason.
In April, wide receiver Rashee Rice was involved in a car accident while racing a Lamborghini in northeast Dallas. He currently faces eight felony charges, a $1 million lawsuit and a likely suspension from the NFL. Rice is also suspected of assaulting a person at a Dallas nightclub earlier this month.
Last week, kicker Harrison Butker gave a controversial commencement speech at Benedictine College in Kansas in which he criticized diversity and equity initiatives and congratulated women earning degrees, saying they should be more excited about getting married and have children. That forced the NFL to distance itself from Butker’s comments, saying the league does not share his views.
In April, Jackson County voters defeated a sales tax referendum that would have funded renovations to Arrowhead Stadium. And this week, rookie receiver Xavier Worthy, the Chiefs’ first-round pick in 2024, had his car was stolen from his apartment complex shortly after moving to Kansas City.
Taking all of this into consideration, the Chiefs likely feel like their first game of the 2024-25 season against the Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 5 can’t come soon enough.
