No NFL team is willing to touch the talented but embattled running back Kareem Hunt even after the deadline to claim him off the waiver wire has elapsed, per Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network.
Twenty minutes past the deadline to put waiver claims in and it doesn’t sound like anyone put in for #Chiefs RB Kareem Hunt. Several teams considered it, but those teams elected not to put in a claim. If this holds, Hunt will be a free agent.
More from Adam Schefter of ESPN.
Hunt now is an unrestricted free agent, albeit on the Commissioner's Exempt List. His NFL future is, and will remain, clouded.
Of course, this update on Hunt comes with little surprise factor. After all, it’s been only less than a week since a surveillance video showing Hunt kicking and shoving a woman at a Cleveland hotel back in February surfaced online to put the former Toledo Rockets star in hot water. The Kansas City Chiefs didn’t waste much time before cutting Hunt in response to the video.
Any team brazen enough to sign Hunt off the free-agent market would receive an exponentially massive public relations nightmare, especially when considering that it was not that long ago when the Washington Redskins were put in a bad light after they claimed Reuben Foster, who had just been cut by the San Francisco 49ers over a domestic violence arrest.
Hunt has already apologized to all concerned parties since his release, but that’s just a drop in a bucket in terms of what it would take for him to join an NFL roster again.
Nevertheless, the temptation for running back needy teams to get Hunt is always going to be there.
Hunt is only 23 and has racked up 2,151 rushing yards and 15 rushing touchdowns in 27 games since being selected by the Chiefs in the third round of last year’s NFL Draft.
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