On February 16, Kansas City Chiefs special teams ace Chris Lammons was a “wanted suspect” for a battery case in Las Vegas involving New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara, according to the 8 News Now I-Team.
A day later, Lammons turned himself in for a “walk through” booking at the Clark County Detention Center, per the Las Vegas Review-Journal on February 17.
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Lammons’ attorney, Ross Goodman, “has filed a motion for an arrest warrant to be recalled and for Lammons to be released on his own recognizance,” per LVRJ. Because Lammons was ordered by Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Harmony Letizia to do a “walk through” booking, he went through the booking process and was released while also being ordered to post a $5,000 bail, according to LVRJ.
Court records obtained by LVJR showed that Lammons was charged with “a felony count of battery resulting in substantial bodily harm, and a gross misdemeanor count of conspiracy to commit battery.”
Lammons is scheduled to appear in court again on March 16, per LVRJ.
To view the details of the case, click here to read Heavy’s story on the incident when Lammons’ involvement was first reported.
4 Chiefs Players in Trouble With Authorities Since October
Lammons’ booking marks the fourth time a Kansas City player has been in trouble with authorities since the beginning of the 2021 season.
On October 25, defensive end Frank Clark was charged for one count of possession of an assault weapon during a traffic stop in June of 2021, per KSHB 41 News. On January 20, linebacker Willie Gay was arrested in a misdemeanor criminal damage case, according to KCTV5 News.
Lastly, cornerback Damon Arnette was arrested on January 29 on two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, carrying or concealing a gun without a permit, possession of marijuana or cannabis, and possession of a class one or two level controlled substance, according to jail records. This came nine days after Arnette had signed a Reserve/Future deal with the Chiefs.
Lammons Entering Free Agency
Lammons enters the 2022 offseason as a restricted free agent. That means he can field offers from other NFL teams, but the Chiefs hold the right to offer him a qualifying tender, which could in turn give them draft pick compensation if another team signs him based on the level of the tender assigned.
With that, let’s go over Kansas City’s cap situation this offseason.
A new page on the OverTheCap website shows the “restructure potential” for each NFL team. The page shows what each team’s cap space would look like for the 2022 season if they restructured all their current contracts by converting “scheduled payments such as base salary or roster bonuses into signing bonuses that are prorated equally across the length of the contract, over a maximum of five years,” per the website.
For Kansas City, if they were to do “simple restructures,” they would have $58.1 million in available cap space. If they were to do “maximum restructures,” they would have $94.7 million in available cap space.
Those numbers don’t exemplify how much money the team will actually free up this offseason to spend. However, it tells us the kind of flexibility the Chiefs have with their current player contracts to move around money, bring in/retain players, and continue to compete for championships moving forward.
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Chiefs’ Chris Lammons Charged in Battery Case: Report