{"id":80595,"date":"2026-10-28T09:55:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/chiefs-reportedly-signing-tucker-in-wake-of-sexual-misconduct-allegations-as-butker-struggles\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T09:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:55:33","slug":"chiefs-reportedly-signing-tucker-in-wake-of-sexual-misconduct-allegations-as-butker-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/chiefs-reportedly-signing-tucker-in-wake-of-sexual-misconduct-allegations-as-butker-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs reportedly signing Tucker in wake of sexual misconduct allegations as Butker struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Tucker was banned under NFL\u2019s conduct policy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Butker has missed five of 16 FG attempts this season<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/50307506\/sources-chiefs-sign-justin-tucker-practice-squad\">are reportedly<\/a> signing the former Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker to their practice squad after Harrison Butker\u2019s poor start to the season.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker was widely considered one of the best kickers in NFL history until the Ravens released him in May 2025. The Ravens said his departure was a \u201cfootball decision\u201d after a slump in form, but the move came months after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/16\/justin-tucker-allegations-massage-therapists-ravens\">accused of inappropriate sexual behavior<\/a> by massage therapists. Tucker denied the allegations and never faced criminal charges but he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6799237\/2025\/11\/11\/justin-tucker-suspension-lifted-eligible-nfl\/\">served a 10-game NFL ban<\/a> for violating the league\u2019s personal conduct policy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/28\/justin-tucker-harrison-butker-nfl-kicker-chiefs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker was banned under NFL\u2019s conduct policy Butker has missed five of 16 FG attempts this season The Kansas City Chiefs are reportedly signing the former Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker to their practice squad after Harrison Butker\u2019s poor start to the season. Tucker was widely considered one of the best kickers in NFL history &#8230; <a title=\"Chiefs reportedly signing Tucker in wake of sexual misconduct allegations as Butker struggles\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/chiefs-reportedly-signing-tucker-in-wake-of-sexual-misconduct-allegations-as-butker-struggles\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Chiefs reportedly signing Tucker in wake of sexual misconduct allegations as Butker struggles\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}