Chiefs assistant coach charged with misdemeanor domestic battery against daughter just before NFL Draft

On the time of the NFL Draft, the Kansas City Chiefs were deed with a spot of a blow.

Assistant manager Dave Merritt was charged Thursday with misdemeanor home battery.

A ailment filed by the territory lawyer successful Johnson County, Kansas, accused him of causing bodily harm to a daughter. 

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Kansas City Chiefs antiaircraft backs manager Dave Merritt is connected the sidelines during a crippled against the New England Patriots astatine Gillette Stadium successful Foxborough, Massachusetts, connected Dec. 17, 2023. (Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire)

The Chiefs said they were alert of the apprehension but had nary comment. Merritt was owed successful tribunal aboriginal Thursday.

Merritt, 54, played assemblage shot astatine North Carolina State and was a seventh-round prime successful 1993 to the Miami Dolphins.

He played lone 4 games for them earlier joining the then-Phoenix Cardinals, for which helium played until 1995. He played successful 16 games successful 1994 and 15 the pursuing season.

Kansas City Chiefs antiaircraft backs manager Dave Merritt stands connected the sideline during the archetypal fractional of an NFL crippled against the New England Patriots successful Foxborough, Massachusetts, connected Dec. 17, 2023. (Greg M. Cooper/AP)

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Merritt past had a stint with NFL Europe successful 1997 earlier going to coaching. His archetypal coaching gig was with the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga arsenic an extracurricular linebackers coach.

He joined the NFL sidelines successful 2001 arsenic a antiaircraft adjunct and linebackers manager with the New York Jets successful 2001 and past went to the Giants the pursuing year.

Merritt stayed with Big Blue until 2017 earlier going backmost to his erstwhile Cardinals for a season. He past joined Kansas City successful 2019 arsenic their antiaircraft backs coach.

Kansas City Chiefs antiaircraft backmost manager Dave Merritt celebrates with his sons aft a 31-20 triumph successful Super Bowl LIV against the San Francisco 49ers connected Feb. 2, 2020, astatine Hard Rock Stadium successful Miami Gardens, Florida. (Tammy Ljungblad/Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service/Getty Images)

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As a coach, helium has won 5 Super Bowls - 2 with the Giants and 3 with the Chiefs.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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