Key moments in Dwayne Bowe’s career as a Kansas City Chief

2007

▪ Sept. 16: After his second career game — a 20-10 loss to the Bears in which he caught a touchdown pass — Bowe predicted the next game would “be the D. Bowe Show.” He caught five passes for 71 yards and a touchdown, a play in which he outleaped Minnesota cornerback Cedric Griffin and snatched a 16-yard pass from Damon Huard in the corner of the end zone early that proved to be the difference in a 13-10 victory. The name stuck.

2008

▪ Dec. 14: In coach Herm Edwards’ last year, Bowe failed to secure an onside kick late in the fourth quarter that the Chargers recovered. This allowed Philip Rivers to lead his team on a game-winning drive that delivered the Chargers a 22-21 victory. The Chiefs went 2-14 that season, which led to the Scott Pioli era in Kansas City.

2009

▪ Nov. 18: Bowe was suspended four games for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs.

2010

▪ May 19: Comments that Bowe made to ESPN the Magazine went public. In the piece, Bowe talked of Chiefs players arranging for women to meet them at the team hotel when the Chiefs played a game in San Diego in Bowe’s rookie season of 2007.

▪ Nov. 28: Quarterback Matt Cassel found a wide-open Bowe streaking down the right sideline for a 36-yard TD that put the Chiefs ahead 21-7. Bowe caught a career-best three touchdown passes in the game in a 42-24 victory.

▪ Dec. 26: Cassel connected with Bowe for a career-long 75-yard TD catch-and run, giving the Chiefs a 24-0 lead on the way to a 34-14 victory that sewed up the AFC West. Bowe finished the season with 72 catches for 1,162 yards and a career-high 15 touchdowns.

2011

▪ Oct. 2: Bowe took a quick pass from Cassel, eluded one defender, bounced off another and sprinted 52 yards for the decisive touchdown in the Chiefs’ 22-17 win, their first victory of the season.

▪ Oct. 10: Bowe made perhaps the catch of his career when he reached over Colts cornerback Jacob Lacey — who was in the midst of committing pass interference — and tipped the ball to himself for a falling, one-handed, 5-yard touchdown catch in the Chiefs’ 28-24 win.

2013

▪ March 5: Bowe signed a five-year, $56 million extension with the Chiefs that included $26 million in guarantees.

▪ Nov. 13: Bowe was arrested in Riverside for allegedly possessing more than 10 grams of marijuana. He later pled guilty in Riverside Municipal Court to charges of defective equipment and littering and paid $610 in fines, but was eventually suspended one game the next year for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy.

2014

▪ Jan. 4: Bowe came up big in the Chiefs’ playoff game against the Colts, catching eight passes for 150 yards. He made a critical third-down catch during a drive in which the Chiefs’ kicked a field goal and took a 44-38 lead. He also caught passes of 25 and 13 yards on the Chiefs’ final drive, but it stalled out when he got single coverage and caught a fourth-and-11 pass down the right sideline but couldn’t get both feet inbounds.

▪ Dec. 28: Bowe had an opportunity to score a touchdown in the Chiefs’ season-ending 19-7 win over the Chargers, but ended up fumbling just short of the goal line. Tight end Anthony Fasano recovered the ball for a touchdown, so the Chiefs scored anyway, but had Bowe scored, it would have kept the Chiefs’ wide receivers from becoming the first group in approximately 65 years to go an entire season without a touchdown.

This story was originally published March 10, 2015 at 7:10 PM with the headline "Key moments in Dwayne Bowe’s career as a Kansas City Chief."