Priest Holmes to miss KC's minicamp

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Priest Holmes to miss KC's minicamp

ELIZABETH MERRILL

5/4/2006

 

 

In the months since Priest Holmes suffered a neck injury, the Chiefs have repeatedly said that they won't count their Pro Bowl running back out.

 

They will, however, cross his name off the list for minicamp.

 

Coach Herm Edwards said Wednesday that Holmes will not be in Kansas City when offseason practice starts in two weeks because he hasn't been medically cleared. Holmes has been seeing a spinal specialist, Dr. Robert Watkins, after getting the worst of a helmet-to-helmet collision with Shawne Merriman at midseason in San Diego.

 

"I told him, 'Hey, when you get cleared, when you get ready in your mind to get back here, you need to be back here,'" Edwards said.

 

"So there's no pressure on him by our people, by us, at all."

 

Holmes, 32, hasn't been in town this spring for offseason conditioning, but that's not unusual. In most years, he's stayed in San Antonio for his private workouts. But he was in minicamp last year after his 2004 season ended with a knee injury.

 

Asked whether Holmes' absence should be interpreted as a sign he may not come back, Edwards said: "People can interpret what they want. But until you hear it from Priest Holmes that he's not going to play, in my mind, he's playing."

 

After the Chiefs put him on injured reserve in November, Holmes said his heart was still into playing but that his neurological tests might tell him something else.

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Good! I hope he retires. LJ is going to be a stud and I don`t want a has been trying to steal any TDs.