Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity. As such, we are very happy to present our pre-2021 revision of our top 50 Kansas City Chiefs of all-time.

As for all of our top 50 players in football we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the NFL. 

3. Playoff accomplishments.

4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

This our first revision in two years, and with the Chiefs participating in the last two Super Bowls (winning the first), there are four new additions and one significant jump.  

1. Will Shields

2. Len Dawson

3. Derrick Thomas

4. Tony Gonzalez

5. Bobby Bell

You can find the entire list here.

Again, we need to state that this is the first revision in two years, so had we gotten around to redoing it last year, the debuts would not have been so dramatic.  

Our bad!

Moving on…

Tight End, Travis Kelce vaults from #34 to #19, and he is regarded as the top man in his position.

Quarterback and former MVP, Patrick Mahomes enters at #27.  It would not surprise us if he becomes number one in the future.

Wide Receiver, Tyreke Hill, comes in at #42.

Offensive Linemen, Mitchell Schwartz and Eric Fisher make their debuts at #45and #48respectively. Both are no longer Chiefs.

We welcome your input and commentsand as always, we thank you for your support.

Roberto Alomar has been placed on Major League Baseball’s ineligible list following an investigation of a sexual misconduct incident in 2014. 

Alomar, who had been working as a consultant with MLB and was also a special assistant with the Toronto Blue Jays was immediately terminated from both roles.   The Jays, whom he won two World Series Titles with, announced that they will sever all ties with their former Second Baseman.  This includes removing a banner that honors his retired #12, and also his name from their ring of honor.  

The Baseball Hall of Fame, who inducted Alomar in 2011, will not be removing him.   He also will not be expelled by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, but they did state that they would not be inviting him to future events, nor will they do any work with his foundation.

Alomar played 17 seasons in a career spent with San Diego, Toronto, Baltimore, Cleveland, New York (NL), Chicago (AL) and Arizona.  

The Kansas City Chiefs made Eric Fisher the First Overall Pick in the 2013 Draft, and the Offensive Lineman made history as the first player from the Mid-American Conference to earn that honor.

Fisher was inserted as the starting Left Tackle, and while he did not achieve the heights that would be expected from a player of that draft stock, the Chiefs did not have to worry about his position for years.  Aiding the Chiefs in their Super Bowl LIV win, Fisher went to two Pro Bowls (2018 & 2020) and started all but four of his 117 Games with Kansas City.

Mitchell Schwartz played his first four seasons with the Cleveland Browns, and while he did well, he was not in that upper tier of Right Tackles.  This would change when he signed with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2016 and would have one of the best four-year stretches of any Offensive Tackle in franchise history, although you would not know it based on his Pro Bowl amounts.

That number, by the way, is zero.

In Schwartz's first four years in Kansas City, he had Approximate Values of 12, 16, 20 & 16, and in the year he had 20 (2018), he was second in the NFL in this metric. While the Pro Bowl voters snubbed him, he was a First Team All-Pro in 2018 and a Second Team selection in the other three years.  The Chiefs won Super Bowl LIV, and Schwartz's contributions should never be discounted.

After only playing six Games in 2020 due to injury, Schwartz was released, and retired shortly after.  Pro Bowl or not, the Tackle had one of the best runs in Chief history, and hopefully, this is celebrated in the future.