Arrowhead Pride
Last Wednesday, Humphries spoke to the media for the first time a a Chief.
When left tackle DJ Humphries walked out onto the field at Lincoln Financial Field last New Year's Eve, his mind was focused on finishing the season strong so that he could head into the offseason on a bright note as he prepared to get ready for what was supposed to be a lucrative contract season in 2024.
Fast forward to the locker room after the game, and Humphries was on crutches with a torn ACL. In his mind, he would always come back from this, but others around the NFL and in the Arizona organization thought otherwise.
“You find out stuff about yourself when you go through stuff like that,” said Humphries while talking to the median at his introductory press conference. “I knew I was a tough guy, but having to go through those things and getting those, ‘Man, you had such a great career,’ and, ‘What a run’...
“It was like, damn, people are just assuming it’s over because I’m hurting... it kind of caught me off guard.”
In response to the doubters of the world, Humphries wanted to make a clear statement.
“People expect me to just, like, tuck it right now,” he said to himself at the time, to which he replied, “Do you not know? My personality must have not shown this is not who I am.”
Humphries used the naysayers to fuel him throughout his rehab.
“I’m a competitor. I’ve never had to prove myself or show anything like that.”
People doubted his comeback was the best thing that could have happened to him; it reignited a thirst and desire to prove everyone wrong within him.
When Humphries was first released by the Cardinals, his first thought was that he needed to explain the situation to his children so that they heard it from him instead of someone at their school.
“I told my kids that your dad’s going to get fired. I’m not going to be on the Cardinals anymore,” said Humphries before his 8-year-old son immediately responded. “‘I really want you to go to Kansas City so you can play with Patrick Mahomes, and you could probably win a Super Bowl.’”
Humphries said that he was taken aback by how automatic his son’s response had been. There is no word on whether Humphries' 8-year-old son is a mole for Brett Veach and on his Kansas City payroll or not. Regardless, Humphries is here now, and he said there isn’t anywhere he would rather be.
“I’m in Kansas City. I’m pretty ecstatic, you know what I mean? It don’t get much better than this.”
Humphries has full faith in the coaching staff and their ability to put him in the best position to succeed.
“This organization knows what to do with football players and knows where to put them and put them in the roads that they need to be. All I got to do is go out there...
