The Kansas City Chiefs announced their six captains for the 2020 NFL playoffs on Friday.
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid allows the team to vote on the captains for the playoffs each season. Reid names two captains on special teams, two on defense and two on offense.
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— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) January 15, 2021
Here is the full list:
2020 playoff captains
- Kicker Harrison Butker (special teams)
- Linebacker Anthony Hitchens (defense)
- Tight end Travis Kelce (offense)
- Quarterback Patrick Mahomes (offense)
- Safety Tyrann Mathieu (defense)
- Safety Daniel Sorensen (special teams)
With last year’s special teams captain Dustin Colquitt bouncing from team to team this year before landing back on the Chiefs’ practice squad, Butker makes sense as a first-time head of the specialists. Safety Daniel Sorensen is also considered a special teams captain.
Hitchens, Kelce, Mahomes, and Mathieu all were playoff captains last season — when the Chiefs took home the Super Bowl LIV championship. Reid’s tradition of allowing the players to vote on playoff captains is something he picked up from his time under Mike Holmgren in Green Bay (1992-98).
“Holmgren did it that way, and I liked it,” Reid revealed back in 2016, via Chiefs dot com. “It gave everybody else an opportunity to be a captain throughout the year. It gave the team an opportunity in the playoffs to pick six captains—two on offense, two on defense, two on special teams.”