The Kansas City Chiefs might be benching running back Larry Johnson in favor of Jamaal Charles according to some week 8 NFL rumors.

Our week 8 NFL rumors show that Larry Johnson has been banned from Kansas City Chiefs team activities while Jamaal Charles appears ready to take over for him. 

Johnson angered the Kansas City Chiefs by making fun of his coach and using gay slurs in recent Twitter updates and that has caused his NFL team to ban him from team activities prior to the week 8 bye.  Johnson began the outburst by, more or less, saying that his dad was a real football coach who played NFL football while current Chiefs coach Todd Haley was a golfer who had not played. 

He then complicated his standings with the Chiefs by using gay slurs to get back at attacking fans on Twitter.  He also made Tweets about how he made more money than them and that the fans don’t sign his checks.   This is just speculation at this point but week 8 NFL rumors have to lead you to believe that Larry Johnson has played his last game in a Chiefs uniform.

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The move to ban Johnson coincides with Chiefs’ coach Todd Haley suggesting that current backup running back Jamaal Charles is ready for a bigger role in the offense.  Week 8 NFL rumors are speculating that Charles will become the Chiefs’ starting running back after the bye week and we’d expect him to hold the spot for the rest of the season after Haley was quoted as saying that Charles is “starting to get it” and that the former Texas running back “is growing on him.