{"id":41834,"date":"2025-03-16T22:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T22:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=41834"},"modified":"2025-03-16T22:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T22:59:32","slug":"ex-chiefs-starter-bids-farewell-to-kc-in-viral-post-after-joining-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=41834","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Chiefs Starter Bids Farewell to KC in Viral Post After Joining Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-1991116767-e1742134371334.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-1991116767-e1742134371334.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-1991116767-e1742134371334.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-1991116767-e1742134371334.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Ex-Chiefs Starter Bids Farewell to KC in Viral Post After Joining Saints\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City Chiefs safety Justin Reid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Kansas City Chiefs starting safety Justin Reid took to X, formerly Twitter, to bid farewell to Kansas City after three seasons with the Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill always love you Kansas City!\u201d Reid wrote in a post along with two ring emojis in response to a thank you post from the Chiefs\u2019 official X account. Reid\u2019s post received over 12,000 likes and 400 replies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will miss you! You have always been a great part of the locker room and the culture in general. I wish you the very best in all you do for the rest of your career. Won\u2019t be the same without you here,\u201d one person wrote in response to Reid\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p>Another person added, \u201cYou\u2019ll be part of the Chiefs history for all time. Everyone will always remember the men that brought home back-to-back SBs here and the first to ever go to three in a row!! You\u2019ll always be welcome back here!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDude, when you\u2019re done playing awesome safety, I hope you come back as our kicker (and then a coach!),\u201d another person wrote. \u201cThanks for all the awesome football, but more for being such a standup guy representing our city! Good luck in every future game not against the Chiefs!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks for EVERYTHING you brought to the Chiefs,\u201d another person wrote. \u201cYou were a cornerstone on a Super Bowl dynasty defense. best of luck to you in New Orleans and know that you ALWAYS have a home with Chiefs Kingdom!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another person wrote, \u201cThis one hurts\u2026.As a fan , all we can do is say Thank You!! Wish you and your family the best!! We all saw how you played and how you elevated the defense!! #20 was a damn rock star!! We will miss you. You will always be a Chief!! No doubt a crucial part of the CHIEFS success!\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Justin Reid Leaves Chiefs as Two-Time Super Bowl Champion<\/h2>\n<p>Reid, 28, signed a three-year, $31.5 million contract with the Chiefs in 2022. His three years in Kansas City can be considered a resounding success.<\/p>\n<p>Along with becoming a two-time Super Bowl champion during his time with the Chiefs, Reid had plenty of individual accomplishments that were worth raising a glass to as well. Those include but are not limited to only missing two games over the last three seasons and being the team\u2019s emergency kicker on game day during the last two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Reid was Pro Football Focus\u2019s 11th-highest rated safety in 2024 and had a career year across the board based on PFF grades (78.2 defense grade, 83.5 run defense grade, 80.8 tackling grade, and 76.5 coverage grade).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Who Will Replace Justin Reid in Chiefs\u2019 Lineup?<\/h2>\n<p>Reid helped cement the backend of a Kansas City defense that was one of the best units in the NFL during the 2024 season. Due to his success with the Chiefs, Reid nabbed another three-year, $31.5 million contract from the New Orleans Saints during the first week of free agency. Reid will now potentially play out the remainder of his NFL career in Louisiana, where he was born and raised.<\/p>\n<p>As a player who is capable of playing multiple roles exceptionally, Reid\u2019s departure will leave a sizable hole on the Chiefs roster.<\/p>\n<p>Second-year safety Jaden Hicks is expected to be Reid\u2019s replacement in 2025 based on the fact that Kansas City didn\u2019t make any additions to the position during the first wave of free agency. There\u2019s still a chance the team could add a safety via the draft, though.<\/p>\n<p>Devon Clements covers the Kansas City Chiefs and Indianapolis Colts for Heavy.com. A New England native who has covered the NFL since 2017, his previous bylines include USA Today&#8217;s Sports Media Group and Sports Illustrated. More about Devon Clements<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Chiefs News<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Kansas City Chiefs safety Justin Reid bid farewell to Chiefs Kingdom after signing a three-year deal with the New Orleans Saints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":41835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ex-Chiefs Starter Bids Farewell to KC in Viral Post After Joining Saints - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=41834\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ex-Chiefs Starter Bids Farewell to KC in Viral Post After Joining Saints - 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