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The Kansas City Chiefs are appealing the NFL's tampering ruling that cost them two draft picks as a result of making improper contact with prospective unrestricted free agent Jeremy Maclin last year. In the March 9 ruling by the league, Kansas City will forfeit its third-round pick in the 2016 NFL Draft and its sixth-round pick in 2017 and was fined $250,000. Head coach Andy Reid was fined $75,000 and general manager John Dorsey was fined $25,000.
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"As we indicated in the statement, we intended to file and we have filed that appeal at this point," Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt told the Kansas City Star on Monday at the NFL's annual meetings in Boca Raton, Fla.
Hunt declined to comment further on the matter because he was limited on what he could say publicly during the appeal.
"We're in the very beginning process of that," Hunt said. "We've not had a discussion with the league on the (timeline), but I'll say from our standpoint, we would like it done by the draft."
The NFL Draft gets underway on April 28.
The league said the Chiefs contacted Maclin -- then under contract to the Philadelphia Eagles -- directly during the league's negotiating window that takes place before the free-agent signing period. Teams are allowed then to contact only agents for prospective free agents.
The Chiefs eventually signed Maclin to a five-year, $55 million deal.
