Kyle Van Noy called out 'unacceptable' Chiefs' doctors after it took a full quarter to get a facial fracture checked

In the annual NFL players poll, members of the Kansas City Chiefs graded their medical staff at an “F” — the worst grade among all 32 teams. After fracturing his orbital bone in the Baltimore Ravens’ season opener in Kansas City, veteran linebacker Kyle Van Noy agreed.

Van Noy was forced out of that 2023 AFC Championship Game rematch in the third quarter after pressuring Patrick Mahomes and winding up underneath the Super Bowl winning quarterback and defensive tackle Justin Madubuike. After spending some time on the turf, he walked off the field and into the bowels of Arrowhead Stadium to get checked out by the Chiefs’ doctors. Then, he waited.

And waited.

“I was supposed to see a[n] ophthalmologist,” Van Noy said on his Yahoo! Sports podcast Van Noy and McCoy, co-hosted by fellow NFL veteran Gerald McCoy. “And they took an entire quarter to get down to talk to me in the locker room. Which, to me, is unacceptable.

“What if I was trying to get back in the game? What if I was really, really hurt? … The way it took time was super unprofessional to me.

“I can understand how Kansas City — the players — have given that training room an F,” “With my experience, I would have probably after that gave them an F, too.”

Van Noy has been in the league 11 seasons and played for five teams, so it’s fair to say he’s seen his share of medical staffs since his 2014 NFL debut. The veteran linebacker is expected to miss a significant amount of the 2024 season as a result of this facial fracture, though the timetable for his return has not yet been announced.