Marlon Humphrey rooting against the Kansas City Chiefs again

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The Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs will square off in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday, and Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey is pulling for the Bills. Or maybe he’s just rooting against the Chiefs, because if Kansas City wins to advance to Super Bowl LIX, the former Hoover High School and Alabama standout is hoping it will not capture its third consecutive NFL championship.

“I have no reason of saying this other than being a hater,” Humphrey wrote on social media. “The Bills or whatever NFC team gotta beat the Chiefs. We can’t let them keep getting away with this.”

The Bills ended the Ravens’ season last week in the Divisional Round with a 27-25 victory in a No. 2-vs.-No. 3 game in the AFC playoffs.

Last season, Baltimore was the No. 1 seed when it lost 17-10 to Kansas City in the AFC Championship Game.

“When I saw the 49ers-Lions (in the NFC Championship Game), I was happy the 49ers won because I didn’t feel that the Lions could beat the Chiefs,” Humphrey said last season. “I felt the 49ers, just off their discipline, their defense, blah, blah, they were a better match for the Chiefs, so my complete biasness and slight hate in my heart for nobody really can only tell me that the 49ers need to win the Super Bowl and everybody on the AFC should lose. I don’t want a single winner for the AFC, so my biasness and slight hate in my heart for anyone winning: Go 49ers.”

But Kansas City defeated San Francisco 25-22 to win Super Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11, 2024.

The Ravens have won 25 regular-season games in the past two seasons without reaching the Super Bowl.

Since Humphrey entered the NFL as a first-round pick from Alabama in 2017, only the Chiefs have won more regular-season games than Baltimore. During the previous seven seasons, Kansas City has played in the Super Bowl four times, the 49ers, Los Angeles Rams, New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles have played in two apiece and the Cincinnati Bengals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers have played in one each, but the Ravens have not reached the NFL championship game in that span.

“This team is done,” Humphrey said after the loss to Buffalo. “… When I look at it, some guys will be here, some guys won’t. Who knows what? I know I have no more years guaranteed on this existing contract, so it’s whatever message you have. You could be on this team; you could be on another team. Some guys will stay, some guys will leave, and I fall into that same bucket, so the message is: ‘We lost. Get over it.’ And we’ll kind of see where the offseason goes."

Humphrey has two seasons remaining on a five-year, $97.5 million contract. He has a $14 million salary for the 2025 season and is due a $4 million bonus if he’s on Baltimore’s roster on March 16.

This season, Humphrey earned Pro Bowl recognition for the first time since 2022 and first-team All-Pro selection for the first time since 2019.

At his end-of-season press conference, Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta didn’t make it sound as though Humphrey would be a salary-cap casualty this offseason after his all-star performance.

“Marlon is a type of guy, he wants a challenge,” DeCosta said. “He wants to be challenged. He wants to have a chip on his shoulder, and I think he would probably say that he heard some of the criticisms and some of the complaints. He’s a highly paid player, and he came back this year and he proved everybody wrong, made plays, attitude was great, a leader, physical like he’s always been, big-play guy, just outstanding. I thought it was great, and it really helped our defense through the tough times. His performance really never wavered from game to game. He was very, very consistent.

“He’s in a great place, and he’s another guy that we’re very fortunate we have under contract next year.”

The Bills and Chiefs meet at 5:30 p.m. CST Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. CBS will televise the game.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.

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