Chiefs $30 Million WR Slammed for Defiant Response to Reporter [VIDEO]
The Kansas City Chiefs’ offensive struggles have plagued the team all year. The usually explosive Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is on track for his statistically worst season since becoming a full-time starter.
Heading into Week 14 against the Buffalo Bills, Kansas City leads the league with dropped passes (32). While Mahomes takes full responsibility for the offense’s shortcomings after both losses and wins, as the defense deserves a lot of credit for many of those victories, Chiefs wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling doesn’t seem to register any issues.
Fox 4 KC’s PJ Green asked the receiver, “With everything going on this season, how have you been focusing mentally on getting better every week?
“What do you mean ‘everything going on?,” Valdes-Scantling countered. Green mentions “drops here and there,” and the 29-year-old replied, “I don’t really know what you’re referring to.”
“It is what it is,” MVS said. “It’s football. You’re not going to make every play. So, it’s not really a thing that’s ‘going on’ that hasn’t happened in any other season or to any other player in this league.”
The Chiefs $30 million receiver has caught 17-of-33 passes for 273 yards and one touchdown in 11 games this season. It will take a herculean effort to close in on the 42 receptions for 687 yards he recorded last year. Valdes-Scantling has become a polarizing figure in Kansas City and his flippant response sparked strong reactions on X, formerly known as Twitter.
One fan posted, “No accountability.” Another person wrote, “Is he not aware he has been terrible this year?” After seeing MVS’s comments, SI’s Matt Verderame called it a “brutal look.”
