Charles Omenihu drops cryptic hint at a standoff in Chiefs contract talks, days after telling Travis Kelce to stay

Charles Omenihu drops cryptic hint at a standoff in Chiefs contract talks, days after telling Travis Kelce to stay

Charles Omenihu posted a cryptic message on social media Tuesday night amid speculation over his future with the Kansas City Chiefs.

The defensive end played just nine games for the Chiefs this season after tearing his ACL in January 2024, an injury which kept him out of their Super Bowl win over the San Francisco 49ers.

He also missed the opening six games of his first season in Kansas City due to a suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy following an alleged domestic-violence incident in January 2023 when with the 49ers. 

Omenihu was signed through the 2024 season with a base salary of $6.74million and a cap number of $10.97m but it remains to be seen if the Chiefs will make him an offer to stay.

Amid the uncertainty, the 27-year-old posted on X on Tuesday: ‘Know your worth’.

He then followed that up with a message trying to clarify his position, adding: ‘Please don’t read into I say on this app during this time period don’t need yall making ᴀssumptions.’ 

Charles Omenihu posted a cryptic message amid speculation over his future with the Chiefs

Charles Omenihu posted a cryptic message amid speculation over his future with the Chiefs

The defensive end played just nine games this season after tearing his ACL in January 2024

The defensive end played just nine games this season after tearing his ACL in January 2024

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Omenihu’s comments come days after he urged Travis Kelce not to retire on the back of their Super Bowl humbling, telling him: ‘We can’t go out like that.’

Kansas City is still reeling from a miserable 40-22 defeat to the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans, where they failed to become the first team of the Super Bowl era to pull off a famous three-peat.

On the back of that loss, the 35-year-old тιԍнт end revealed in last week’s episode of New Heights that he is now considering retirement. 

Yet Omenihu is desperate for Kelce to play on next season and during an appearance on FS1’s The Facility, he backed his teammate to ‘give it one more go’ in 2025 after stressing that he still has ‘a lot left’.

‘We can’t go out like that,’ Omenihu said about Kelce. ‘He’s a Hall of Famer from the moment he says he’s done. But I think Trav has a lot left, I think Trav is an extreme compeтιтor, I think he’s somebody that loves the game… and [after] the storied career that he’s had, going out like that in my opinion wouldn’t be something that he would do.

‘So I believe that he’ll be back, I believe that he’ll give it one more go. We have guys coming back on that team, Rashee [Rice] is gonna be back, so that’s gonna help out the offense.

‘Whatever holes that the team has, Coach Reid and Brett [Veach, general manager] do a great job of getting on top of it real quick, they’re not gonna overlook anything that may have been the reason why we didn’t come out on top.

‘So it’s gonna be a refuel and get back to it.’

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