It began as an experiment. John Dorsey, the Kansas City Chiefs general manager, has a penchant for searching high and low for talent. There’s Canadian imports like Weston Dressler and Laurent Duvernay-Tardif. Then there are projects like Demetrius Harris, the former basketball player converted into a tight end. So far, the latter experiment was going quite well, as the end of last season showed that Harris’s talents were finally being utilized on the field.
Maybe that experiment is now over. The Chiefs likely felt set at tight end heading into the offseason, but news of Demetrius Harris’s arrest for marijuana possession not only puts his ability to play in jeopardy (as he faces a potential suspension) but there’s the whole public relations issue of this, not to mention the broken trust, for the team to address.