ChiefsPlanet - Chiefs Joey's Top 15 Chiefs

I’m going to be starting a new series called Joey’s Top 15. The number is obviously in honor of our current QB. I’ll be sharing my top 15 of everything over the next year, from Chiefs Players, Music Artists, Clothing Items, Movies and so much more.

Does anyone care?

I doubt it.

I’m doing it anyway. Can't whoop me.

I’m kicking the whole thing off with my top 15 favorite Chiefs. These aren’t necessarily the best to ever wear red and gold, but they are my personal favorites. Keep in mind, I’m only 32 years old and I won’t be adding anyone I never saw play.

Let’s Go!

15 QB Chase Daniel

Greatest QB of All Time to never get a real shot. He’d be in my top 5 if he’d played for us longer. He’s obviously my top Tiger of all time.

14 G Brian Waters

Love it when undrafted guys make such a huge impact for my favorite football team.

13 FB Tony Richardson

I always loved this guy when I was a kid, mostly because I had a newspaper clipping of him holding up Priest after a TD stuck to my wall for years.

12 LB Tamba Hali

This fella here was drafted a few hours before my daughter was born, that’s a memory that will always stick out to me. He played with a high intensity motor that I love seeing. One of those guys that it upsets me that he didn’t get to be around for the SB.

11 P Dustin Colquitt

This guy was the best player on the team during some years I should’ve been in my peak fandom. I know we joke he was the MVP on the Edwards’ teams, but to me, he really was.

10 S Eric Berry

I know, we all hate Berry now. But, at one time I freaking loved this guy, and still do. He hit hard. He seemed to have fun out there. And the cancer story puts the icing on the cake. If he could’ve stuck around to win the SB with Pat, he’d probably be in everyone’s top ten, maybe even top 5 chiefs.

9 TE Tony Gonzales

One of my first sports heroes outside of Michael Jordan, I can’t believe I don’t have him higher. Maybe it’s how he left. I don’t know. But I did love watching him play. So much.

8 LG Will Shields

Outstanding dude by all accounts and I’m proud to say he was Chief. And for so long.

7 TE Travis Kelce

I feel like Kelce could be in my friend group. When he was younger, and now that he’s more mature and I guess so am I. It feels weird putting him above Tony, but he’s got a Ring. And that OT run last year really sealed the deal on how much I love this guy. Hope he plays another 5 years.

6 RB Priest Holmes

When we’d play games as teenagers, Basketball, Football, Throwing things into buckets, etc. We almost always played to 31 as a homage to an all-time great RB. Those Dick V years were instrumental in my development as a Chiefs fan, and Priest was my probably my second favorite player for a long time.

5 LB Derrick Thomas

I barely remember him playing, but we share a last name, and he’s this high for obvious reasons.

4 HB Jamaal Charles

Wish there was a way he could be in the HOF. Wish he could’ve been here for the SB. Wish he wouldn’t have been a Bronco. What a great player and a great example to kids everywhere.

3 QB Patrick Mahomes

Is he anyone’s all time favorite yet? It’s hard to not put him at #1 for all he’s done in such a short time. He’s easily in my opinion, the best Chief ever, and that’s just after 4 years. He’s just not my all time favorite quite yet. That will probably change.

2 LB Derrick Johnson

I loved him as a player. I loved him even more as a man. I’ve met with him about a dozen times. Several times doing community service, a couple of times he reached out to me to see how my life was going and if I had my addiction under control. I don’t personally know any of the other men on this list like I do DJ, but I feel like this is the best man to every play for our team. When he went down in 2016, I thought we had a real chance at winning it all, and I almost cried that he wouldn’t be there with us. Of course that didn’t happen, but it sucks he couldn’t hang on a few more years for SB 54.

1 QB Trent Green

I was 11 when he became our QB. I was 13 when we went 9-0, which was the first real excitement I ever experienced as a full-fledged die-hard fan. I loved Trent. Still love Trent. I consider the Bengals game in 06 one of the worst days of my life. Number 10 was always my Jersey number. It’s still my favorite number. He’ll always be my true childhood hero, which locks him in here at number one.