Chiefs' Chris Jones Responds to Fan on Twitter About Not Showing up to Training Camp

Shortly after the Kansas City Chiefs drafted defensive tackle Chris Jones out of Mississippi State back in 2016, the franchise signed him to a four-year, $6.23 million rookie contract.

That deal is set to expire following the 2019 season and given his world-beating 2018 season, the 24-year-old has elected to hold out of KC's June minicamp. Fast forward a few weeks later, however, and Jones is still nowhere to be seen at the Chiefs' facilities.

Training camp begins on July 26 and Jones has showed no signs that he will take part in the ever-important practice sessions. In fact, the DT won't even give into pleading Chiefs fans on Twitter.

What more need be said?

Jones is 100% justified in holding out. A player coming off a 15.5-sack, 29-QB hit, and 19-tackle for loss season should not be making $1.2 million the following campaign.

As Jones states, he has a while to keep playing at an elite level in the NFL. He's established himself as one of the best interior linemen in the game and deserves a new-and-improved deal.

It's as simple as that.

To say that the Chiefs are making an outlandish gaffe by hard-balling him wouldn't even begin to describe the stalemate.