After a stint with the Oakland Raiders in 2013, he returned to the Canadian Football League (where he had been a significant contributor for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 2011), eventually helping the Winnipeg Blue Bombers win the Grey Cup in 2019 as both a placekicker and a punter. Those were the last NFL games he ever played.īut Medlock kept his dream alive. He appeared in 10 games that season but was released in November after missing field goals in three consecutive contests. In 2012, the Carolina Panthers became the fifth team to sign him - but just the second to put him on the field. Unlike Stallings and Elkins, however, Medlock eventually did play for another NFL team. Peterson pulled the plug, installing third-year player Dave Rayner as the placekicker for the next 10 games - and then finishing the season with 43-year-old John Carney. So Tynes was off to the New York Giants - where he would win two Super Bowl rings over the next six seasons - while Kansas City general manager Carl Peterson used a fifth-round draft pick to acquire Medlock from UCLA.īut in Week 1 of 2007, Medlock went 1-for-2 in his only game for the Chiefs: a 20-3 loss to the Houston Texans. Lawrence Tynes had come the closest to being a young kicker the team could depend upon - but in three seasons, he had never ranked higher than 16th in field-goal accuracy. It would be fair to say that fans had come to expect excellence at the position - but except for the times the club had brought in aging veterans like Pete Stoyanovich or Morten Anderson, the team wasn’t usually getting that result. When the 2007 NFL Draft arrived, the Chiefs’ franchise had spent almost half its history with either Jan Stenerud or Nick Lowery as the team’s placekicker. Today, he’s a regional sales manager for Biotronik, a company that specializes in medical electronics. While Elkins later spent time with both the Oilers and Cleveland Browns (and the Sacramento Surge of the World League of American Football), that was the only game Elkins ever played in the NFL. In Week 12 of his rookie season, Kansas City was administering a 34-0 beatdown of the Houston Oilers when Elkins was asked to put down his clipboard and step in for Steve DeBerg. Unfortunately, the former Wake Forest quarterback didn’t live up to his draft position. While he was taken in 1989’s second round, he was the 32nd overall pick - so if he had been selected in a more-recent season, he would have been a first-round pick, too. When people talk about the 34 years between the Chiefs using a first-round draft pick for quarterback Todd Blackledge in 1983 and Patrick Mahomes in 2017, I always like to bring up Elkins. In 2020, he was named the associate commissioner of Conference USA. He then began a career in sports administration, with stops including service as the director of player engagement for the Tennessee Titans, the director of player development at the University of Illinois and as an assistant director for enforcement for the NCAA. Stallings spent time with the Baltimore Ravens in the next two seasons but never appeared in another NFL game. He played as a backup in the Week 17 game against the New York Jets, collecting a false start penalty as the Chiefs finished the season 4-12 with a 13-10 overtime loss. Guard Tre’ StallingsĪ sixth-round pick for the Chiefs in 2006, the 6-foot-4, 317-pound Mississippi product was active for four Kansas City games at the end of the 2007 season. Reading it, I wondered how many players appeared in a single Kansas City Chiefs game.Īs I looked over the list, four caught my eye. As the league’s annual summer doldrums continue, ESPN published an article focusing on seven men who played exactly one NFL game.
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