Kadarius Toney ‘will NOT play in the Super Bowl’ in a blow to the Kansas City Chiefs as receiver fails to recover from hip injury in time for Las Vegas showdown against the 49ers
ESPN said on Sunday that Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Kadarius Toney is not anticipated to play in Super Bowl LVIII against the San Francisco 49ers.
The last time Toney, 25, saw action was on December 17 in Kansas City’s 27-17 victory over the New England Patriots, where he had two receptions for five yards. The main injury preventing him from playing has been said to be a hip problem.
Andy Reid, the coach of the Chiefs, responded, “We’ll see,” when asked on Tuesday whether Toney will play. Reid mentioned that Toney has been rehearsing; we’ll see if he’s ready or not.
For his part, Toney claimed, ‘I’m not hurt, none of that. Hip, knee, nuh-uh,’ in a viral Instagram Live post the morning of the AFC Championship Game. The Chiefs beat the host Baltimore Ravens 17-10 in the Jan. 28 matchup.
His comments were interpreted by some as an insinuation that the Chiefs were lying about his injury, but Toney told NFL Network on Tuesday that he was not attacking the Chiefs but rather his former team, the New York Giants.
‘It kind of started like that,’ Toney said in an interview with NFL Network on Tuesday.
‘In the process of that, I got interrupted so it got like a mixed message behind it, I guess you could say. Then, a lot of footage got chopped up in the release, so it made it like I was attacking doing what I love the most.
“I never made remarks about the Chiefs or launched an attack on them.” The Giants supporters and those in my comment section were the ones I was referring to; they weren’t even on my live broadcast, so you wouldn’t even be aware that they were there.
In the Super Bowl of the previous year, Toney played a crucial role in the Chiefs’ drive through the fourth quarter to defeat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35. He caught a touchdown pass and returned a punt 65 yards to set up another. The longest punt return in Super Bowl history was his.
In 13 games (two starts) this season, Toney—who is in his first full season with the Chiefs—had 27 receptions for 169 yards and a score. In addition, he recorded six punt returns for 58 yards.
