Speaking for the first time publicly on the release of Kareem Hunt, Chiefs CEO Clark Hunt admitted the team knew about all three of the running back’s offseason incidents (via Brooke Pryor of the Kansas City Star). The CEO also hinted that the organization was instructed by the NFL to allow the league office to handle the investigation. 
“We did know about that, yes, we were familiar with all three of the incidents that he had had in the offseason,” said Clark Hunt. “They’d all been reported to the NFL, and the NFL was investigating them.”
At the start of the season, two known offseason incidents involving the running back were known – an altercation at a Kansas City nightclub and the ugly hotel brawl in February. The Chiefs have been long aware that Hunt also allegedly punched a man in the face in June, even though that did not surface publicly until earlier this month. Of course, the Chiefs say they did not see the footage of the hotel incident until it was leaked on Nov. 30, which is why Hunt was on the roster until that fateful day.
“I don’t think we were necessarily trying to make a statement, we just felt that the best thing for the Kansas City Chiefs moving forward was for us to part ways with Kareem,” Clark Hunt said. “We were obviously shocked by the video, like anybody who saw it, and we’d had some issues with Kareem not being truthful with what happened that night, and we just really felt for everybody’s best interests we needed to head in a different direction.”
Now a free agent, Kareem Hunt is undergoing counseling for anger management and alcohol use and attending women’s group sessions. It’s unlikely that Hunt will be signed until he is formally suspended by the NFL, but several teams have already reached out to him and will continue to monitor his progress. Ray Rice was not given a second chance in the NFL after video of his assault made international headlines, but league sources expect him to suit up in 2019, according to Jason La Canfora of CBSSports.com.
I hope he never plays again nfl on the stage it is, is telling everyone money means more then justice for domestic violence.
Domestic violence is violence or other abuse by one person against another in a domestic setting, such as in marriage or cohabitation.
Splitting hairs, but you can’t call everything domestic violence when it isn’t, it is actually violence, or assault.
This is so dumb. He barely shoved her and pretty much whiffed on the kick. A guy’s career and life shouldn’t be ruined by a drunken mistake.
Yeah…no.
Sounds like someone has beaten their lady…. Oh wait you were drunk so it doesn’t count. Are you serious? Tell that to your daughter/sister/mother. “It’s fine to beat women as long as your drunk.” Drinking is literally what caused this.
“Your, ur, you’re” doesn’t matter. My point remains the same.
“He pretty much whiffed on the kick.”
Dude, you would make a fantastic lawyer.
Hahahahah!
Dude looked like Chris Boswell up in that hotel
This is a very bad take
It was just a drunken mistake, after some sexual deviant behavior…and he felt so bad about it he just now sought counseling. He should have done all of that back in February after the incident if he truly was remorseful.
This is some drunken spat in a hotel room with a NFL-groupie. Domestic abuse is something that happens between two people in a relationship. Domestic abuse is not some half-ass pushes to some broad trying to push her way back into your hotel room for free booze and drugs.
Those who give this incident the status of domestic abuse are cheapening real cases of domestic abuse. Perhaps part of KC management’s issue here is a black man should under no circumstances touch a white woman?
The whole affair is ludicrous and a witch hunt. The drunken row did not merit police charges as this kind of intoxicated bad behaviour happens regularly on weekend nights after 1am all across America.
That’s exactly what I’m saying! People on here calling me a woman beater. I’ve shaken a woman real good, but never beat.
You sound like a crooked lawyer who represent these losers
You sound like a shxt salesman with a mouthful of samples
Would sign him in a heartbeat
Imagine him with Chicago o line.
Would it not be better for victims of abuse if he were to truly learn from his mistakes, never commit an act of violence like this again, and go on to have a long productive career while helping to change and mentor others and donating towards the efforts to change in the process?
Pretty spiteful for someone that doesn’t even know him.
I don’t know him. I don’t like what he did but he’s in more of a position than you or I ever will be to truly affect people’s lives.
It’s like a mad panel. You can tell someone until you’re blue in the face not to drive drunk, but the minute they have to face a family member of a victim of drunk driving it’s a different ball game.
If the league truly cared about violence on women, they ban those players. And that’s never happened nor will it.
That last sentence — awkward construction. Unless Zach is saying teams expect Ray Rice to suit up in 2019…?
I thought the exact same thing.
IMO the best way to go about it IS .. first time you get a full 16 game suspension with your game check being donated to various charities for domestic abuse … second time your out of the league.
The problem there is that the team is in effect paying his fine for him without getting anything in return.
Nose picker “ Jerra” will have a plane waiting on him the day he clears. He “ Jerra” will proclaim that Hunt “ is a changed man and I am the one to get it handled”. Jerra knows how to “ Pick a winner”.