Kansas City Chiefs defender has an appropriate reaction to the team's latest 2025 offseason coaching hire
The Kansas City Chiefs have begun reloading their coaching staff for the 2025 NFL season. One new face on the defensive side of the ball is Chris Orr, former linebackers coach for Jackson State. One Chiefs player was particularly excited to learn about the hire. Chiefs fourth-year linebacker Leo Chenal took to Twitter to express his excitement […]
The Kansas City Chiefs have begun reloading their coaching staff for the 2025 NFL season. One new face on the defensive side of the ball is Chris Orr, former linebackers coach for Jackson State.
One Chiefs player was particularly excited to learn about the hire. Chiefs fourth-year linebacker Leo Chenal took to Twitter to express his excitement for a reunion with an old friend.
"Death Row full steam ahead," Chenal wrote. "We ready to work!!"
Orr wasn't only a player for Wisconsin from 2016 to 2019, overlapping during his senior year and Chenal's rookie year, but also the Director of Player Development for the Badgers in 2021. That's one year before the Chiefs selected Chenal out of Wisconsin in the third round of the 2022 NFL draft. Orr was also a coaching intern with Kansas City during training camp leading up to the 2024 NFL season.
You might wonder what "Death Row" has to do with all of that. It's a mentality instilled in linebackers at the University of Wisconsin that has been around long before Orr or Chenal. It signifies hard work, grit, and determination in the trenches, not an actual death sentence, quite the opposite really. Chenal used to write "Death Row" on his right arm during college games as a sort of mantra and reminder. It was also a bit of psychological warfare against his opponents. It's a mentality he's carried to the NFL, evidenced by his play.
Alas, a "Death Row" reunion will occur in Kansas City in 2025, and Chenal is stoked to work alongside his brother again.
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