Kareem Hunt is happy former Chiefs teammates won the Super Bowl: ‘I love those guys’
Two day after the Chiefs won the AFC Championship Game and earned a spot in Super Bowl LIV, Browns running back Kareem Hunt was pulled over for speeding in Rocky River, Ohio.
Dashboard video from the stop showed Hunt tell Patrolman Mike Asbury: ““You know what happened to me? I should be playing for a freakin’ Super Bowl. It hurts my soul like you wouldn’t understand.”
Hunt won a rushing title as a rookie with the Chiefs in 2017 but was dismissed from the team in December 2018 after a video showed him kicking and shoving a woman in a Cleveland hotel.
Hunt signed with the Cleveland Browns in February 2019 and served an eight-game suspension before taking the field last fall.
Despite his forlorn demeanor during the encounter with the police, Hunt on Monday told reporters in Cleveland he was happy his former team won Super Bowl LIV.
“I have moved on from that. I love those guys,” Hunt said in a Zoom call, per 92.3 The Fan. “I got brothers on that team. I came in with a lot of those players. Love the coaches there. All good people and they deserved it, and I am happy for them. I talk to a lot of them and I am very happy for them. They are champs. They deserve it. I know how hard that team works and how hard they stress to be great.”
Hunt, who was born and raised in Ohio and played college football at Toledo, now wants to win a title in Cleveland.
“I think we can do something special here,” Hunt said. “I want to get that Super Bowl feeling and I believe we can do it here in my hometown, and that would be bigger than anything for me, to bring a championship to Cleveland.”
A police report from the January traffic stop shows the patrolman found “small amounts of marijuana” in a “backpack on the back seat of the car Hunt had been operating.”
Hunt told reporters Monday it was “out of character.”
“I’ve been working to become a better person each and every day,” Hunt said, per ESPN. “Definitely not looking for anything like that to happen again. ... I’ve got to do better. Shouldn’t have done it. Ready to move on from that.”
