Dpe midweek arrt, Kansas Cy Chiefs LB Willie Gay will play Sunday, Andy Reid says - ESPN

Contents:

• BRETT VEACH TERVIEW: WILLIE GAY ASKED CHIEFS TO NSIR NICK BOLTON
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• WILLIE GAY’S AGE BY KC CHIEFS BRGS UP NCERN AND NFN
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• DPE MIDWEEK ARRT, KANSAS CY CHIEFS LB WILLIE GAY WILL PLAY SUNDAY, ANDY REID SAYS
• DISPATCH D OM ARRT OF CHIEFS LEBACKER WILLIE GAY JR. SHEDS LIGHT ON CHARGE
• CHIEFS’ WILLIE GAY NI WOMAN’S ALLEGATNS NEW URT DOCUMENTS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• WILLIE GAY REPORTEDLY ARRTED ON WEDNDAY FOR ‘MISMEANOR CRIMAL DAMAGE’
• WILLIE GARSON FOUND A HOME PLAYG THE CANONIL ‘GAY BT FRIEND’
• WILLIE GAY IS NOT AT CHIEFS PRACTICE FOR PERSONAL REASONS
• JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS STAR ON PLAYG TV’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GHOST DMMER

BRETT VEACH TERVIEW: WILLIE GAY ASKED CHIEFS TO NSIR NICK BOLTON

Somethg special has been velopg the heart of the Kansas Cy Chiefs fense over the last uple of years as general manager Brett Veach has elected to vt high-level draft assets to the lebacker posn wh the selectn of Willie Gay Jr. Gay me before that as a high-ceilg lebacker who uld elevate play at the posn for the first time years sce Derrick Johnson was his prime. Read below what he had to say about his young, dynamic lebacker duo and watch the vio below for the full Verrame (Arrowhead Addict): I wanted to talk about Nick Bolton and Willie Gay.

Gay really stepped to his role last year and he seems like he’s havg a strong mp … Dpe their backgrounds beg so different and the players beg so different a lot of ways, what led you to feelg like both guys were what you were lookg for?

If I rewd time back to two weeks before Bolton was drafted, I’d bumped to Willie Gay a uple of weeks before the draft and he kd of bumped me on how everythg was gog wh the draft and what looked like. Then you have a guy like Willie Gay that is jt a phenomenal, credible athlete who has tremendo range and speed. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

First, he grabbed Willie Gay Jr.

WILLIE GAY’S AGE BY KC CHIEFS BRGS UP NCERN AND NFN

While he need time to acclimate to the pro level, he projected as a posive ntributor every facet of the game, givg the Chiefs a three-down talent who uld excel verage—which had been an ongog 2021, the Chiefs grabbed Nick Bolton as a long-term replacement at the Mike role that Hchens occupi, but also as a short-term help the n game who uld potentially blossom to somethg greater (and has) that the postseason is here for the Chiefs, a look at the fensive numbers om Sunday’s w over the Ptsburgh Steelers the Wild Card round have cur why Willie Gay was hardly year at this time, Gay went down wh an jury that would keep him out of the postseason entirely.

Now that he’s healthy, Gay should be playg the majory of the snaps—or at least that seems logil. Instead, Willie Gay played the least amount of fensive snaps of any lebacker on the Chiefs active roster on Sunday. Gay is gog to be stmental the Chiefs’ abily to get past the Buffalo Bills the Divisnal Round and certaly agast eher the Ccnati Bengals or Tennsee Tans the AFC Champnship to the game, the Chiefs had Gay listed wh a wrist ncern on their jury report, but he even practiced full all week long.

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

Then aga if Gay had re-jured himself before game time, the team would have ma an announcement (like they did wh Rashad Fenton who left durg pre-game warmups) had no jury signatn before the game or even durg , and after the game, head ach Andy Reid failed to mentn anythg to do wh Gay his ndown of jury ncerns or issu. Of any player ready to make a difference on this fense, Gay is one of the most important for the Chiefs, a player who Steve Spagnuolo will need to rise up and ncel any mismatch opposg offens want to only qutn is: where was Willie Gay the Wild Card round and is that any ditn of somethg wrong gog forward. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach major North Amerin men's sports after g out publicly an terview wh Outsports.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

”Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach the NFL and all of major Amerin men's pro sports, acrdg to Outsports. " San Francis 49ers assistant Katie Sowers, a pneer among female ach the NFL, me out as the the league's first openly gay ach 2017, acrdg to Outsports. He add that he reached out last year for advice on g out om former Las Vegas Rairs lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active openly gay player NFL history 2021.

DPE MIDWEEK ARRT, KANSAS CY CHIEFS LB WILLIE GAY WILL PLAY SUNDAY, ANDY REID SAYS

The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U. While Maxen is believed to be the first male ach to have e out publicly as gay, there have been a few female ach U. When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports.

- Kansas Cy Chiefs lebacker Willie Gay will play Sunday's AFC divisnal-round playoff game agast the Buffalo Bills, ach Andy Reid plead not guilty on Thursday Johnson County, Kansas, District Court to a mismeanor charge of crimal property damage of ls than $1, 000. Reid did not specify his reasons for allowg Gay to play agast the Bills. "I'm not gog to get to the nversatns [wh Gay].

Items damaged were a vacuum cleaner, a cellphone screen protector, a humidifier, a wall and a door mother of Gay's 3-month-old son has requted a civil protectn orr, which means Gay is not allowed to have ntact wh her or the fant until the se is heard by a civil is schled to return to urt March, the Chiefs' send-round draft pick 2020, started 11 gam this season pl Kansas Cy's playoff w last weekend agast the Ptsburgh Steelers the wild-rd round. Police dispatch d the arrt of Chiefs lebacker Willie Gay Jr.

DISPATCH D OM ARRT OF CHIEFS LEBACKER WILLIE GAY JR. SHEDS LIGHT ON CHARGE

M., officers arrive and report that Gay is no longer there. — In newly released urt documents, Kansas Cy Chiefs lebacker Willie Gay Jr. Gay was arrted on Wednday, Jan.

They’re all allegatns Gay nied an terview wh police.

Acrdg to urt documents, Gay’s acunt of the events that night are different than what the woman, who FOX4 is not namg at this time, scribed. Gay told police that he was ved over to vis his son and while he was on the uch holdg him, his ex-girliend began tellg him he wasn’t a good father.

CHIEFS’ WILLIE GAY NI WOMAN’S ALLEGATNS NEW URT DOCUMENTS

She told Gay to leave and he asked why, then offered to leave 10 mut. In Gay’s acunt, he told police that she refed to let him stay 10 more mut and threatened to ll police. Gay beme upset after realizg she lled police.

In urt last week, Gay plead not guilty to the charg. Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay. Maxen’s disclosure is a historic one, makg him the first openly gay ach of a U.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player.

“I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio. Kansas Cy Chiefs lebacker Willie Gay has reportedly been arrted as of Wednday night Overland Park, Kansas, per Nate Taylor of The Athletic, the mismeanor charge was for crimal damage to the filed report, a wall, door ame, and vacuum were all broken durg an argument by Gay and charg were filed.

WILLIE GAY REPORTEDLY ARRTED ON WEDNDAY FOR ‘MISMEANOR CRIMAL DAMAGE’

Willie Gay’s reps provid further Willie Gay’s rep Maxx Lepselter, Gay was at his son’s hoe visg. Gay was charged wh stctn of property of ls than $1, 000.

Per the urt filg: Gay damaged a vacuum cleaner, wall, door ame, to the extent of ls than $1, 000. Gay has a urt appearance schled for Thursday officials said they are aware of the suatn but provid no ment for the media at this Chiefs at this pot are knee-ep preparatns to host the Buffalo Bills at Arrowhead on Sunday, so will be tertg to see how the tails, as they e out, might affect thgs for the lebacker—eher om the team or the league.

He started 8 gam for the Chiefs last season but was jured at this time last year durg the team’s postseason year, Gay missed the first several gam of the year wh a toe jury that lgered om the preason but he slid right to a startg role upon his return and was a big part of the team’s fensive turnaround near midseason. No show about life at the turn of the lennium — pecially not one lled “Sex and the Cy” — would be plete whout the so-lled gay B.

WILLIE GARSON FOUND A HOME PLAYG THE CANONIL ‘GAY BT FRIEND’

(After “Sex and the Cy” premiered 1998, he always had stacks of scripts on his sk vg him to dn for gay rol.

WILLIE GAY IS NOT AT CHIEFS PRACTICE FOR PERSONAL REASONS

In promotnal cycl for “Sex and the Cy, ” terviewers regularly asked if he was gay — a qutn that n lead celebri to say funny stuff. (Matt Damon: “Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anythg about your sexualy. As ltered wh a tly shockg brand of misogyny and homophobia as his songs uld be, they were also ventive how they took the vlent fantasi of subgenr like gangster rap and transformed them to mic lan wh vulnerabily about Simmons’s own spirual travails and mental-health stggl.

Or when she spoke at lbian and gay rights ralli or jumped on the classroom table to get her stunts’ attentn at San Francis State Universy, where she was a profsor of munitns, the first open lbian hired there a tenure-track posn. In 1978, she helped change history when she and Harvey Milk, a San Francis cy supervisor, led a mpaign agast the Briggs Iniative, a state bill that aimed to ban gay men and lbians om teachg public schools. Soon thereafter, Hormel me out to his fay members as gay.

JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS STAR ON PLAYG TV’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GHOST DMMER

He beme a philanthropist, wh a specific foc on gay equaly and rights, givg more than $15 ln to L. Over his life and tablishg himself as one of the most genero gay donors U. “The early ’90s were still a time when we’d e out to iends and fay and were often met wh rejectn, ” says Kari Hong, who me out as gay her first year at Swarthmore and is now an immigratn attorney.

Hormel was poised to be Ameri’s first openly gay ambassador, and Senate Republins objected to his nomatn not bee of his lack of foreign-policy experience — awardg ambassadorships to polil ntributors was a bipartisan practice — but bee of his sexualy.