Kansas City Chiefs HC Andy Reid gets the recognition he deserves for excelling during a trying 2024 season
The annual NFL 101 Awards have named Andy Reid the AFC Coach of the Year. Reid led the Kansas City Chiefs through a trying season in 2024 in which several key starting players missed significant time due to injuries. He also navigated his team through an 11-day stretch in which they played three games, winning […]
The annual NFL 101 Awards have named Andy Reid the AFC Coach of the Year.
Reid led the Kansas City Chiefs through a trying season in 2024 in which several key starting players missed significant time due to injuries. He also navigated his team through an 11-day stretch in which they played three games, winning each one of them.
The NFL 101 Awards was created by Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt back in 1969 and is the league's longest-running awards program. Here is the excerpt on Reid from the 101 Awards' press release.
"In his 12th season at the helm of the Chiefs, Reid led his team to a franchise-best 15-2 record and clinched a 10th-straight trip to the NFL postseason as well as a ninth-consecutive AFC West title en route to the first seed in the AFC playoffs in 2024. Reid helped steer the Chiefs to a 9-0 start, matching a franchise record win streak to start a season (2003, 2013, 2024) which has only been done two other times in franchise history, including once by Reid (2013). With 26 years of NFL head coaching experience, Reid has a 273-146-1 regular season record and is the only head coach in NFL history to be the winningest coach of two different franchises (Chiefs and Eagles). This is Reid’s fourth time receiving this honor (2002 NFC, 2013 AFC, 2015 AFC and 2024 AFC), making him the winningest coach in the history of the 101 Awards."
While this is the fourth time Reid has received this honor from the Committee of 101, he has only been named AP NFL Coach of the Year once. That award will be determined during the NFL Honors just days before Super Bowl LIX.
Reid is a sure-fire future Hall of Famer, notching his 300th career win (combined regular season and postseason) last week during the divisional playoffs over the Houston Texans. Only Don Shula (347), Bill Belichick (333), and George Halas (324) have more wins as an NFL head coach than Reid.
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