KANSAS CITY, Missouri – Six years after releasing Kareem Hunt midseason, the Kansas City Chiefs have signed the veteran running back to their practice squad.

The Chiefs were looking for reinforcements at the running back position after starter Isiah Pacheco suffered a broken fibula in last week’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

The Chiefs selected Hunt in the third round in 2017, the same draft they used to draft quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Hunt had a great rookie season, rushing for a league-leading 1,327 yards, catching 53 passes and scoring 11 touchdowns.

He was on pace for another 1,000-yard season in 2018 when video surfaced showing Hunt shoving and kicking a woman earlier that year at a Cleveland hotel where Hunt had an apartment.

The NFL then placed Hunt on the Commissioner’s Exempt List and the Chiefs released the running back on the grounds that he had not been honest with them when they questioned him about the incident.

Hunt, 29, played the last five seasons for the Browns in his hometown of Cleveland, the most productive of those seasons being 2020, when he ran for 841 yards and caught 38 passes.

Hunt ran for 411 yards and caught 15 passes last season.