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OVERLAND PARK Rashad Fenton Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys , Kan. —has reopened a domestic violence investigation involving suspended wide receiver Tyreek Hill after a TV station broadcast audio in which Hill and his fiancee discuss injuries to their 3-year-old son.Reid and general manager Brett Veach both declined comment about Hill’s case and potential next steps involving their star player. The prosecutor, Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe, did not return a message.“I’m not going to have too much to add,” Veach said in response to multiple questions about Hill. “As I said yesterday, we’re going to continue to gather information, evaluate information and, as I said yesterday, we’ll make the right decision when the time is appropriate.”Police were called to Hill’s home twice last month and determined the child had been injured. On Wednesday, Howe said he would not file charges against Hill or Crystal Espinal even though his office believed a crime had occurred . He said available evidence didn’t establish who had hurt the child.“As a prosecutor, as a father of four, yes, it frustrates me when someone hurts a child and you can’t do anything about it,” Howe said then. “One of the elements of a crime is you have to prove who that person is who committed the act.”A day later, KCTV in Kansas City aired part of an 11-minute audio file in which Espinal tells Hill earlier this year that when the boy was asked about his injured arm he replied: “Daddy did it.”Hill denied any role in what happened to the child, saying: “He says Daddy does a lot of things.”Espinal also tells Hill their son is “terrified of you.”Hill replies, “You need to be terrified of me, too Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys Stitched , bitch.”Later, Espinal asks Hill, “What do you do when the child is bad? You make him open up his arms and you punch him in the chest.”Howe has not responded to requests for comment about the audio recording, which the TV station said has been provided to his office. KCTV said the recording is believed to have been made in March when the parents were walking through an airport in Dubai. The station said Espinal sent it to at least one friend and was shared with KCTV “by someone who is concerned about the welfare of the couple’s child.”Several media outlets reported that Overland Park police went to the Hill home on Thursday night after receiving an anonymous call from someone worried about Espinal. According to the reports, Espinal was fine and officers were at the home for only a short time.The Chiefs have suspended Hill while the team looks into the developments. The NFL could also punish Hill under its personal conduct policy.Hill’s history with Espinal is well known. In 2015, he pleaded guilty to domestic assault and battery by strangulation in an incident involving his then-pregnant girlfriend the previous year. The incident resulted in his dismissal from the Oklahoma State football team and he was put on probation until August 2018. He wound up playing at tiny West Alabama, where he juggled school and football with counseling sessions and other court-mandated service work until the NFL came calling.Hill, a fifth-round pick who is a two-time Pro Bowler, was part of a controversial draft class by the Chiefs and then-general manager John Dorsey in 2016.The Chiefs also spent a third-round pick that year on cornerback KeiVarae Russell, who missed an entire season for violating Notre Dame’s honor code in an academic misconduct case; a fourth-round pick on wide receiver Demarcus Robinson, who was suspended four times at Florida for drugs and other violations; and a sixth-round pick on Virginia Tech linebacker Dadi Nicolas, who was once charged with larceny and suspended for bumping an official. Among them, only Robinson is still on the roster.Last year, the Chiefs released star running back Kareem Hunt following a video that showed him pushing and kicking a woman in a hotel hallway. Hunt is suspended for the first eight games of the upcoming season but has a one-year deal with Cleveland under Dorsey, the Browns GM who signed Hunt while he was with the Chiefs. The Chiefs parted ways with a couple of cornerstone defensive players in recent days, and saw several other players leave in free agency and trade. On Thursday, G.M. Brett Veach addressed the media regarding the tough decisions that the AFC finalists had to make.“Change is inevitable and it’s always hard to move on from players who have been here Rashad Fenton Jersey nfl draft ,” Veach told reporters. “I think it certainly makes it more difficult when change involves long-standing members of the community and the locker room — certainly talking about Eric Berry and Justin Houston. What two guys better exemplify that? As everyone knows, these guys were outstanding players. All the accomplishments on the field will certainly never be forgotten. One of the things that Clark [Hunt], Andy [Reid], and I will always talk about too is just the impact they’ve had on the community and the great things they’ve done for the people here in Kansas City. It’s certainly very difficult, but again change is a part of this process.“Also, I want to wish the best of luck to Steve Nelson, Mitch Morse, Demetrius Harris, all those guys. Really proud of what they were able to do here and really excited for them and the contracts they got. Excited for their families. All those guys were integral parts of our success. Also, Dee Ford, of course as you guys were made aware of, we were able to reach a trade with San Francisco for a 2020 second-round selection. Excited for Dee and his family. John Lynch got a great player. I feel like after the trade went through, both teams were in good positions moving forward.”It’s one thing to not be able to re-sign players in free agency, it’s another thing to cut players who already were under contract. Veach was asked to explain why he released Berry and Houston.“Looking both now and into the future, we have a lot of great young talent and we have guys like Patrick Mahomes, Chris Jones and Tyreek Hill,” Veach said. “One of the things we made a strong effort on when I took over was to make sure we had good young talent in the pipeline Womens Rashad Fenton Jersey , but we were also cap flexible, and we had draft capital. The cap was certainly a big part of these decisions — where we were and what was going to be utilized in regard to cap space and how we can maneuver ourselves to potentially do long-term extensions with the younger players. I think the fact that we have a one and two twos [this year] and then a one and two twos next year puts us in a position to be aggressive from now until the start of the season. I certainly think you start with the cap and they are tough decisions. But I think it’s something that looking towards not just next season, but for the next two, three, four, five years, if you’re not proactive in your approach then you’re always chasing your tail and you’re always in a position where you don’t have draft capital, or you don’t have cap space.”It’s a good problem to have, but that good problem quickly becomes a bad problem if a team with multiple great players spends and spends and spends and then has nothing left. Thus, in order to have cash and cap space for players like Mahomes and Hill and Jones, players like Berry and Houston and Ford had to go. Eventually, Hill and Jones will be deemed expendable in favor of other younger, ascending players.Through it all, though, the Chiefs will have Mahomes at the nucleus of their roster, with his contract being the top priority. The Chiefs eventually will find out where Mahomes lands on the scale that stretches from Peyton Manning grabbing every last dollar to Tom Brady leaving millions on the table every year. The closer Mahomes is to Manning — and Mahomes has every right to go there — the more challenging it will be to put a top-shelf team around him on a consistent basis.