KC Chiefs WR Kadarius Toney Addresses Instagram Live Video, Being a No. 1 Wide Receiver
On the morning of the AFC Championship Game, Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Kadarius Toney went live on Instagram, where he proceeded to discuss his health and his apparent dissatisfaction with his reputation.
"I'm not hurt," Toney said before a series of more profane explanations. "On God, not hurt, none of that. It go from hip to ankle to this to that. ... What else? I'm in a body cast right now, at this point." Toney then asks for someone to "go tell 'em what's really going on."
Toney had not appeared in a game since the Chiefs' December 17 win over the New England Patriots and he was ruled out of the AFC Championship Game due to a hip/personal designation, with the latter pertaining to the birth of his first child. In the Wild Card round, Toney was inactive with a hip/ankle injury designation.
In a conversation with Michael Robinson of NFL Network during Super Bowl LVIII Opening Night, Toney attempted to set the record straight about his video before providing an interesting answer to one of Robinson's later questions. First, Robinson asked Toney if he's healthy.
"Yeah, I'm good," Toney replied.
Then, Robinson asked about Toney's Instagram Live and if the goal of the video was to get his "version of the events out."
"Yeah, it kinda started that, but in the process of that, I get interrupted, so it got like, a mixed message behind it I guess you could say, and then a lot of footage got chopped up and released so it made it like I was attacking the ones I love the most," Toney said, referring to the Chiefs.
"I never attacked the Chiefs, never said anything about the Chiefs, who I was referring to was the Giants fans, the people in my comments, my comment box, not even on my live recording so you wouldn't even know they were there," Toney continued. "But I was referring to them, which I shouldn't have. I just wanted to go out there and how you said, get my message across as far as my injury, but I shouldn't have did that. At the end of the day, I'm a man, and I accept my mistakes just like I accept my wins. I'm just moving past that right now."
Toney's explanation seems to be that his vitriol was not directed at the Chiefs, but instead toward New York Giants fans who appeared in his Instagram Live comments, prompting him to discuss the injury designations that clouded the end of his time in New York.
Robinson then asked Toney a straightforward question: "You a No. 1 receiver in this league?"
"Yeah, if I get the ball," Toney said with a smile.
