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2016 Kansas City Chiefs season

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Head coach
  
Andy Reid

Owner
  
The Hunt family

Record
  
12–4

General manager
  
John Dorsey

Home field
  
Arrowhead Stadium

Division place
  
1st AFC West

2016 Kansas City Chiefs season

The 2016 Kansas City Chiefs season was the franchise's 47th season in the National Football League, the 57th overall and the fourth under the head coach/general manager tandem of Andy Reid and John Dorsey. The Chiefs clinched their first AFC West division title since 2010. The Chiefs also clinched a first-round bye for the first time since 2003, but lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the divisional round.

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Violation of anti-tampering policy

On March 9, 2016, the NFL announced that the Chiefs had violated the league's anti-tampering policy, while pursuing wide receiver Jeremy Maclin during the 2015 off-season. The NFL defines tampering as perspective teams contacting soon-to-be free agents before NFL policies allow, which is two days prior to the beginning of the new league year. As punishment, the Chiefs forfeit their 2016 third-round selection, a 2017 sixth-round selection, and were fined $250,000. In addition, head coach Andy Reid was fined $75,000 and general manager John Dorsey was fined $25,000. The Chiefs immediately appealed the decision believing the punishment was excessively harsh and inconsistent with punishments that have given to other teams in similar situations. On April 19, the NFL denied the Chiefs appeal however they did reduce the team's fine to $200,000 and Reid's fine to $60,000.

NFL Top 100

The Chiefs had an NFL best 9 players in the annual Top 100 Players countdown.

Offseason

Reserve/future free agent contracts
Retirements
Free agents

Draft

Notes

  • The Chiefs forfeited their original third-round selection (what would have been the 91st overall selection) as part of the punishment for violating the NFL's anti-tampering policy.
  • The Chiefs acquired an additional fifth-round selection in a trade that sent safety Kelcie McCray to the Seattle Seahawks.
  • The Chiefs traded their 1st round draft pick (28th overall) and 7th round pick (249th overall) to the San Francisco 49ers in exchange for the 49ers 2nd round pick (37th overall), 4th round pick (105th overall), and 6th round pick (178th overall)
  • The Chiefs traded their 2nd round draft pick (59th overall) to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in exchange the Buccaneers 3rd round pick (74th overall) and 4th round selection (106th overall)

    • Undrafted free agents

    Players signed from rookie mini camp tryouts
    Cuts
    Players cut in the offseason before playing for the Chiefs

    Camp transactions

    Cuts
    Signings

    Preseason transactions

    Cuts
    Signings
    Trades
    Roster cut downs

    Regular season transactions

    Trades

    *Trade included a conditional draft pick that required Davis to stay on the roster for a specific amount of time; since he did not meet this requirement, the Chiefs received no compensation.

    Cuts
    Signings

    *Indicates player was signed off practice squad of team listed
    †Knile Davis was traded to the Packers, then was released 2 weeks later, and signed back to the Chiefs

    Players involved in multiple transactions

    This list is for players who were involved in more than one transaction during the season

    Schedule

    Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.

    Week 16: vs. Denver Broncos

    NFL on Christmas Day

    References

    2016 Kansas City Chiefs season Wikipedia
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