Texans' Kris Boyd breaks silence on coach-shoving incident: 'I was just turnt'

Houston Texans cornerback Kris Boyd stunned the NFL assemblage connected Saturday erstwhile helium threw his helmet and shoved his peculiar teams manager aft the archetypal play of the crippled against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Boyd was capable to pursuit down Chiefs wide receiver Nikko Remgio to halt a imaginable opening-play touchdown. He stripped the shot escaped lone for the Chiefs to recover. He couldn’t look to get his emotions successful cheque and ran to the sideline ripping disconnected his helmet and shoving Frank Ross to the ground.

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Houston Texans cornerback Kris Boyd cheers aft beating the Jaguars, 23-20, Dec. 1, 2024, astatine EverBank Stadium successful Jacksonville, Florida. (Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

He talked astir the incidental aft the game.

"I got the shot out," Boyd said. "And arsenic I’m getting up, I look astatine the screen, I spot thing but achromatic and they’re each pointing that way. So I was like, ‘Oh yeah, we got the ball, too. Turnover.’ And I was conscionable turnt."

Boyd thought Houston recovered the fumble. There was besides a punishment emblem connected the tract arsenic helium was disciplined for removing his helmet.

"I was conscionable excessively excited, did thing that I shouldn’t person done. Learning from it," Boyd said. "Keep my helmet on."

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Miami information Elijah Campbell and Texans cornerback Kris Boyd get into a shoving lucifer aft the Dolphins recovered a fumble astatine NRG Stadium successful Houston, Dec. 15, 2024. (Thomas Shea-Imagn Images)

Boyd said helium apologized to the squad aft the incidental and had nary ill-will toward Ross.

"He told me, ‘Hey, listen, don’t interest astir that,'" Boyd said. "We had a full ballgame to play, but I was conscionable trying to get my constituent across. Like I said, I'm not that benignant of person."

Texans manager DeMeco Ryans, who didn’t spot the shove, denounced the incident.

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Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes hugs Houston Texans cornerback Kris Boyd  after the 2025 AFC divisional circular crippled astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium successful Kansas City, Jan. 18, 2025. (Denny Medley-Imagn Images)

"What I saw is we can’t travel retired connected the archetypal play and propulsion our helmet," Ryans said. "That’s not what we teach. That’s not what we’re astir astatine all."

The Chiefs won the game 22-14.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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