Kadarius Toney was back at practice last week as the Kansas City Chiefs prepare for the Super Bowl. Whatever Andy Reid said that he was “working through” must be resolved because he was on the field.
The entire saga surrounding the controversial wide receiver has been confusing and it got even more so on Sunday. Toney tried to clear the air about his bizarre Instagram rant by claiming it never happened.
Kind of.
He posted a 58-word (if you can call them words) response to a video that went live his own social media platform 7 days ago. It claimed that the clip, which came directly from his exclusive Instagram stream, was altered to portray what he said in a way that was not true.
Toney said last week that he was not injured even though Kansas City listed him on the injury report. That, apparently, was not what he said— even though it was what he said.
To say that the clip was “altered to make it look like that” when multiple people were watching the stream in real time and corroborated what he said is a wild move. It’s not like the video was posted after the fact or leaked. Toney was live on Instagram.
Thus, for him to claim that the video was “altered” can only mean that somebody or something (maybe artificial intelligence?) hacked into his account to post a video of Toney’s likeness making accusations against the team that employs him. If that actually is what happened, there is legitimate cause for an investigation— certainly by the NFL, if not legal authorities.
Whatever Toney tried to do here was a giant failure. Nobody will believe that someone who wrote such a poorly-worded retraction (for lack of better word) wasn’t responsible for the initial post…