Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid is 68 years old and entering his 28th season as an NFL head coach, including the 14th with his current franchise, but he has given almost no real thought to walking away from the game.
Reid said as much in an interview with Blair Kerkhoff of The Kansas City Star that ran on Wednesday, August 19.
“I get around the Fourth of July, and I’m going, man, I gotta get back," Reid said. “Between those 14 grandkids bossing me around and my beautiful bride (Tammy) bossing me around ... we have to get back to the dorms."
“I appreciate every day I get to do this," he added.
Andy Reid has dealt with recent assertions that the NFL game is starting to pass him by as he enters his 28th season as a head coach
It took 13 years, but Reid finally failed to lead the Chiefs to a winning season for the first time in 2025. Kansas City finished with a record of 6-11, in part due to a season-ending ACL tear that quarterback Patrick Mahomes suffered late in Week 15 against the Los Angeles Chargers.
The Chiefs -- who played in seven straight AFC championship games and five Super Bowls (winning three of them) before falling five games under .500 last season -- had a historically bad rate of explosive-play production in the run game in 2025, per Ben Solak of ESPN. The same was true for Reid's offense in 2024, both years in the context of NFL run games league-wide since the turn of the century.
Reid was on the cutting edge of offensive philosophy when he took over the Chiefs' sidelines in the early 2010s, around the time of the analytics explosion in the NFL, and he leveled up again after drafting Mahomes in 2017 and making him the full-time starter the following season.
Kansas City's early-down passing game was borderline revolutionary, and the reliance on Mahomes helped Reid transform the Chiefs into the league's next dynasty following the near two-decade reign of Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, and the New England Patriots.
But Reid has faced assertions from an array of NFL analysts in recent years that he is no longer the innovative schemer and play-caller he once was. Yet, Reid's willingness to get on board with the team's decision to invest heavily in the run game via the signing of Kenneth Walker III shows that the old ball coach still has the capability to adapt in the golden years of his career.
He also acquiesced to the Chiefs selecting three defensive players with their first three picks of the 2026 draft, all of which came inside the top 40, even despite Kansas City also needing considerable help at wide receiver, the offensive line, and tight end.
There isn't a lot of outside pressure on Reid to retire just yet, as he is now a surefire Hall of Famer with three rings, six Super Bowl appearances, and an all-time regular-season record of 279-157-1. And it doesn't appear outwardly as if there is any strong sentiment within the organization that Reid needs to go sooner rather than later.
That said, the team's performance this year and Reid's specific ability to evolve as a playcaller yet again could prove crucial to that conversation.
How the Chiefs go about building out the offense next year, namely with regard to adding offensive linemen and pass-catchers with Travis Kelce potentially retiring and Rashee Rice perhaps hitting free agency, may also play a big factor in how long Reid remains at the helm in Kansas City.
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