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How many Kansas City Chiefs players are in the NFL Hall of Fame?
The KC Chiefs have featured in the Super Bowl five times, and have 25 combined players and coaches inducted into the Hall of Fame. Let’s find out who they are.
Established in 1963 in Canton, Ohio, the Pro Football Hall of Fame honors individuals who have shaped professional football’s history. Each year, a new class of enshrinees, composed of football’s greatest athletes, coaches and contributors, are added to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The Kansas City Chiefs, who have won three AFL Championships (1962*, 1966, 1969) and featured in five Super Bowl games, winning on three occasions (1970, 2020 and 2023), have had a combined total of 25 players and contributors enshrined into the Hall of Fame so far - 10 of them spent the majority of their careers in KC. Special mention must go to legendary outside linebacker Derrick Thomas, who tragically died as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident, aged 33. He was inducted in 2009 - the same year the Chiefs retired his No.58 jersey.
Let’s take a look at who these individuals were and when they were inducted:
Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame enshrinees (19)
- LB Bobby Bell (1983)
- LB Willie Lanier (1986)
- QB Len Dawson (1987)
- DT Buck Buchanan (1990)
- K Jan Stenerud (1991)
- C Mike Webster (1997)
- QB Joe Montana (2000)
- RB Marcus Allen (2003)
- WB Warron Moon (2006)
- CB Emmitt Thomas (2008)
- LB Derrick Thomas (2009)
- LT Willie Roaf (2012)
- DT Curley Culp (2013)
- RG Will Shields (2015)
- K Morten Anderson (2017)
- TE Tony Gonzalez (2019)
- CB Ty Law (2019)
- S Johnny Robinson (2019)
- CB Darrelle Revis (2023)
Coaches and Contributors (6)
- Lamar Hunt (1972)
- Marv Levy (2001)
- Hank Stram (2003)
- Bill Polian (2015)
- Bobby Beathard (2018)
- Dick Vermeil (2022)
Darrelle Revis was inducted in 2023, becoming the most recent Chiefs’ Hall of Famer. Regard as one of the best cornerbacks in history, his time in Kansas City was brief - just six games before he was released in 2018. Dick Vermeil spent the last five years of his coaching career with the Chiefs and won the AFC West in 2003 but only guided the team to the playoffs once before he decided to retire in 2005.
*as the Dallas Texans