Illegal Procedure

According to our inside sources*, Priest Holmes may be finished for the season. Holmes apparently hasn’t been the same since suffering a shoulder injury in the first game against Oakland. He has been experiencing numbness after hard hits, and after a helmet-to-helmet collison with Shawne Merriman last week, Priest saw a spine specialist in Califorina (registration/BugMeNot required).

The Chiefs announced today that Priest will definitely not play. And from what we’re hearing, he’s so concerned about further damage that he is seriously considering hanging it up. For a superstar in the twilight of his career, with a successor waiting in the wings and a likely coaching change next season, it would make more sense for him to retire, rather than coming back next year.

We’d be sorry to see him go–Priest has always been a great player and a class act.

* Our inside sources consist of some guy on a message board who claims to know Priest’s agent’s personal assistant. Dubious? Probably. Hey, cut us a break, we’re just getting started. We’re not exactly Mike Florio here.

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