To put it mildly, the Kansas City Chiefs didn’t get a great showing out of wide receiver Kadarius Toney in their matchup against the Detroit Lions on Thursday night.
Toney, who started the game with a drop of a perfect pass from Patrick Mahomes that ended up being a pick-six, ended the night with one catch for one yard. He dropped three other passes, one of which may have won Kansas City the game on the Chiefs’ final drive late in the fourth quarter.
Buy Chiefs TicketsWhile no loss can be blamed on one individual player in a team sport, Toney certainly didn’t do Kansas City any favors against the Lions. The night he put together on Thursday may be one of the worst of any Chiefs receiver in the Patrick Mahomes era.
Fans on Twitter were less than pleased with Toney and did not mince words in voicing their displeasure with his performance during and after the game.
Check out some of their reactions below:
Kadarius Toney finishing with one receiving yard, negative one rushing yards, four drops, and one of those drops leading to a pick-6 in a game KC lost by 1 point legit might go down as the worst performance any skill player has all season.
— Danny Heifetz (@Danny_Heifetz) September 8, 2023
I can't recall a game where one WR hurt the team more than Toney did tonight.
Drops killed 3 drives minimum, one of which led to a pick six. Just a catastrophic outing.
— Seth Keysor (@RealMNchiefsfan) September 8, 2023
The big moments in the #Chiefs #Lions game that turned the tide in the Lions favor under the circumstances.
1. Kadarius Toney’s 4 drops (including pick six)
2. 3rd and short jet sweep
3. A gassed run defense
4. 4th and 25
5. 4th and short punt conversion that sparked them— Nick Jacobs (@Jacobs71) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney season opener against the Lions 🦁
1 CATCH 🔥
1 YARD 🔥
3 DROPS 🔥
1 DROP TURNED INTO A PICK 6 🔥
1 30 YARD GAME LOSING DROP ON THE LAST DRIVE 🔥Kadarius Toney had himself a NIGHT! 🔥😮💨💪
— evin (@KayvonOjulari) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney drops another pass, and that would have been FG range.
— Matt Verderame (@MattVerderame) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney with drops: pic.twitter.com/GaBSSfWQc1
— Sleeper (@SleeperHQ) September 8, 2023
I'd be far more concerned about Skyy Moore than Kadarius Toney from that game.
Toney had drops, they were bad. We also know he can be an electric playmaker even if only as a gimmick player.
Skyy Moore ran 31 routes & had 4 targets. The only pass he caught was negated by…
— Sam Monson (@PFF_Sam) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney dropped the ball for a pick-6 earlier and now drops a 1st down pass on 3rd down.pic.twitter.com/7jRxJdNEDDhttps://t.co/jw0OLRpXSa
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney has 8 drops on 82 career targets, the highest drop rate (9.7%) in the NFL since he entered in 2021,among 105 WR with 75+ targets
Highest drop rate since '21 among WR with 75 targets
Kadarius Toney 9.7%
Jauan Jennings 9.6%
Darius Slayton 9.3%
Sterling Shepard 9.1%— Jordan Dajani (@JordanDajani) September 8, 2023
And Kadarius Toney drops ANOTHER one.
And it went right through his hands while wide open… pic.twitter.com/EckSJufnsm
— Doug Rush (@TheDougRush) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney to Andy Reid after having 3 drops but he went the whole game without an injury pic.twitter.com/18gZbCANzY
— Jabree (@BBUGiants) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney is not him. Some major drops tonight
— NFL Draft Diamonds (@DraftDiamonds) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney drops: 3
Kadarius Toney catches: 1 pic.twitter.com/3rSNuHBoFE— JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) September 8, 2023
I’ll never get off those two crucial drops by Kadarius Toney. It’s going to be a long 10 days.
— Mark Gunnels (@MarkAGunnels) September 8, 2023
TONEY DROPS 🤮 pic.twitter.com/gC9NWozoYK
— Roto Street Journal (@RotoStJournal) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney had as many drops tonight as Tyler Lockett had in 2018, 19, 2021, and 2022 combined.
— Tyler Alsin (@TylerjAlsin) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney cost the Chiefs this game with THREE GIANT drops pic.twitter.com/lhU7HJOv7m
— Jesse Blake (@JesseBlake) September 8, 2023
Guarantee Toney drops his keys while trying to unlock his car tonight.
— Volume KC®️ (@volumeKC) September 8, 2023
Patrick Mahomes every time to Kadarius Toney when he drops a pass pic.twitter.com/KBpj6yMgTM
— Evan Dammarell (@AmNotEvan) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney has multiple drops for the Chiefs in KC’s opener pic.twitter.com/LusrPgsM5D
— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney has more drops tonight than he does catches.
1 catch, 1 yard. pic.twitter.com/JS3iFbH7y4
— Doug Rush (@TheDougRush) September 8, 2023
You telling me you can't even process a game that just happened?
The Lions went for 4th downs in their own end b/c they were still scared of Mahomes getting the ball.
Toney cost them min. 10 net points with 2 awful drops, including an easy play to set up GW FG. https://t.co/DfG0OgoidO
— Scott Kacsmar (@ScottKacsmar) September 8, 2023
This game is on Toney right? Like there were other problems but how crucial were Toney’s drops???
— Jay (@Jay__chiefs) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney had four drops tonight, five if you count the one from my fantasy team.
— joel solomon (@joelwsolomon) September 8, 2023
Stat that doesn’t seem real but is: Toney has as many drops in this game as Amon-Ra St. Brown had all of last year
— Becks (@BecksWelker) September 8, 2023
I wonder what the final score would have been if the Chiefs ran out anyone but Kadarius Toney
Pick 6 was a huge game changer and then had a number of other drops that really stung— Big Game Bengal (@BengalYouTube) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney with not one, not two, but three drops on the opener. #ThursdayNightFootball
pic.twitter.com/WIQWqeYw6S— NFL Highs (@frito_paw) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney
1 receiving yard
-1 rushing yard
3 drops— Steve Palazzolo (@PFF_Steve) September 8, 2023
WRs have tough games with drops. Sucks, but it can happen.
Bigger worry with Toney is it’s week 1 & that dudes head was anywhere but KC. He wasn’t engaged at all. THAT is worrisome.
— VP of pizza consumption (@Jtfawver) September 8, 2023
If we lose this is on Toney. 3 drops as an NFL WR is inexcusable
— Bri (@Snibboc) September 8, 2023
Toney was hit in the hands with the football 4 times, caught 1… and one of his drops em gave up a touchdown https://t.co/WHdmlXAmjJ
— Brockman (@JoshuaJBrockman) September 8, 2023
This game featured:
– Horrible fourth-down decisions
– Kadarius Toney with 100 drops
– A pick-six on a ball in a WR’s hands
– Not sneaking on 3rd-and-shortWelcome back, NFL.
— Eli Hershkovich (@EliHershkovich) September 8, 2023
Mahomes won’t get much blame tonight because of the obvious Toney drops and rightfully so.
However, the Lions could very well have won by two scores. This team will be very good this year
— Nick Faria (@Nick_Faria1720) September 8, 2023
Toney how many drops do you have pic.twitter.com/9GWmrpd1oE
— BL (@AyoBL_) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney’s performance tonight:
• 1 receiving yard
• -1 rushing yard
• 4 drops, including one returned for a pick-six.A lot is being said about it, so I’ll leave it at this: the WORST performance I have seen all season. And I’ve watched 100% of the games this season.
— Polaski (@josephdrobbins) September 8, 2023
At the senior bowl I vividly remember toney 1on1s being all drops. I ain’t surprised pic.twitter.com/Zj78pfgqme
— Cheick (@suave215) September 8, 2023
One can argue Toney blew this game for the Chiefs with crucial drops.
pic.twitter.com/aGUrs8knRb— Your Best Bet (@YBBSportsData) September 8, 2023
Man a lot of this loss is on Toney. Pick 6. How many drops? Horrible horrible game for him.
— Chauntelle Murray (@cmurray416) September 8, 2023
Patrick Mahomes everytime Kadarius Toney drops the ball #NFLKickoff #DETvsKC pic.twitter.com/eUPXnlpCOh
— insert unsername here (@wesjustwes) September 8, 2023
Kadarius Toney's statline:
3 drops
-1 yard rushing pic.twitter.com/ZSc0z52p5f— WBG84 (@WBG84) September 8, 2023
