KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Chiefs saw seven regulars depart as free agents last year and released an eighth. Here we're continuing a series looking back at each of those decisions and rendering a verdict whether the Chiefs made the right decision in letting the player walk.
Today: LB Akeem Jordan.
Jordan, who had played earlier in his career for Andy Reid with the Philadelphia Eagles, was with the Chiefs for just one season. He started 10 games in 2013 as an inside linebacker, playing mostly in running situations.
Jordan might have been even more valuable to the Chiefs on special teams, where that season he was one of their top players on the return and coverage units.
The Chiefs at the end of the 2013 season signed veteran Joe Mays as a replacement. Jordan moved on to Washington, where he played in only two games, both on special teams.
Verdict: Given that the Chiefs lost Mays for the first half of the season because of a wrist injury and their other starting linebacker, Derrick Johnson, for the year in the season opener with a ruptured Achilles, Jordan might have been a useful player to the Chiefs last season, but they had no way of knowing after signing Mays there would have been a need. So the Chiefs were fine in letting Jordan go.
