CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Browns are signing former Giants and Chiefs wide receiver Kadarius Toney to the practice squad, a league source confirmed to cleveland.com.
Toney, 25, was a member of the Chiefs back-to-back Super Bowl winning teams but was released in August by Kansas City after he was inactive at the end of the regular season in 2023 and throughout Kansas City’s playoff run.
The Chiefs acquired Toney, the 20th overall pick out of Florida by the Giants in the 2021 NFL Draft, in a trade in October 2022. He caught a go-ahead touchdown in Kansas City’s 38-35 win over the Eagles in Super Bowl LVII and helped set up another touchdown by returning the ensuing punt by the Eagles 65 yards in the fourth quarter.
Super Bowl heroics aside, the Chiefs appeared to grow tired of Toney’s drops and he infamously lined up offsides prior to the snap on what would have been a go-ahead touchdown when tight end Travis Kelce pitched the ball back to Toney who ran it into the endzone.
The Giants traded Toney in his second season after just 12 games with the team. He caught 41 passes for 420 yards and didn’t score a touchdown.
In 20 games with Kansas City, Toney had 340 receiving yards and three touchdowns and 119 punt return yards. He also scored a rushing touchdown.
