Chiefs begin arrival to St. Joseph on Tuesday
By Jacob Meikel
The first wave of Kansas City Chiefs players and coaches coming to St. Joseph begin this week, with quarterbacks and rookies arriving on Tuesday.
The back-to-back Super Bowl champions begin preparations for the 2024 season in their 14th year visiting the campus of Missouri Western for training camp.
Back-to-back Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes will be among the group that arrives on Monday. Mahomes enters this training camp in his eighth season in the NFL, all of those seasons have been in Kansas City.
The Chiefs will be one of eight teams in the league to host their training camp away from their own facilities in 2024. Seventy-five percent of teams in the NFL have their training camps at home rather than traveling.
2024 marks the final year of the contractual agreement between the Chiefs and Missouri Western State University for the university to host training camp.
The Chiefs have won three of the last five Super Bowls; all of those seasons they won the title saw the team take part in training camp in St. Joseph in the months prior to the start of those championship seasons. Chiefs safety Justin Reid offered his thoughts in the days leading up to Super Bowl LVII about what makes the travel for training camp so effective.
“I think it’s huge for the camaraderie and chemistry for the team,” Reid said. “I got closer with guys a lot quicker than I’ve gotten closer with guys when I was back in Houston just because of that.”
The rest of the Chiefs veteran players will be arriving to St. Joseph later in the week. The expected date of their arrival is Saturday, July 20. Practices open to the public will begin on Sunday, July 21.
