'Yeah I'm back' — Kansas City Chiefs DE Charles Omenihu says a lot without saying much at all through impressive workout video
Chiefs DE Charles Omenihu has had a tough time during his tenure with the team, with suspensions and injuries marring his first two seasons. In his third year in Kansas City, he's looking to put it all behind him, and his latest offseason workout video indicates he's well on his way toward that.In 2023, Omenihu was suspended for […]
Chiefs DE Charles Omenihu has had a tough time during his tenure with the team, with suspensions and injuries marring his first two seasons. In his third year in Kansas City, he's looking to put it all behind him, and his latest offseason workout video indicates he's well on his way toward that.
In 2023, Omenihu was suspended for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy for the first six games of the season. When he returned from suspension, he had a dominant late-season stretch, resulting in seven sacks in 11 games played. It was easily the most successful stretch of his NFL career, but the adversity was just getting started.
Omenihu would suffer a season-ending ACL injury in the AFC Championship Game against the Baltimore Ravens, knocking him out of Super Bowl LVIII against his former team, the San Francisco 49ers. He worked his way back from the knee injury to appear in nine combined regular-season and postseason games in 2024, recording two sacks across those games.
His explosiveness appeared sapped by the ACL injury, but he made progress with each passing game. The 6-foot-5 and 280-pound defensive lineman looks to be making more strides toward getting back to the player that Chiefs Kingdom first became accustomed to.
Chiefs DE Charles Omenihu's workout video proves he's entirely back from his 2023 AFC title game ACL injury
Usually, you can't put too much stock in offseason workout videos. Chiefs DE Charles Omenihu's latest video says a whole lot about where he's at from a physical standpoint for the upcoming 2025 NFL season. He managed an extremely impressive seated 33-inch hurdle jump, immediately followed by a 50-inch box jump.
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Clearing a 33-inch hurdle while seated speaks to Omenihu's lower-body explosiveness, something that didn't quite look so refined in his first season back from the ACL injury. Some professional athletes would struggle to do that standing, let alone seated. The 50-inch box jump is a benchmark indicator of elite power and athleticism in plyometrics, but combining it with the 33-inch seated hurdle takes it to a whole different level.
"That boy nice," Former NFL player turned commentator Emmanuel Acho replied on X, followed by three fire emojis.
"They thought I (fell) off Acho," Omenihu wrote, followed by a crying laughter emoji. "Boy I love to prove people wrong!"
It remains to be seen whether Omenihu can return to the form he displayed with Kansas City during the 2023 NFL season. If the workout video is any indication, he could regain the same level of explosiveness he had before his knee injury. A healthy and full year will go a long way toward achieving what he has aimed to achieve on both a personal and team level.
You can see a further look into Omenihu's offseason on his YouTube channel.
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