Reed has started 80 games for the Kansas City Chiefs and Seattle Seahawks over his NFL career.
According to NFL Network's Tom Pelicero, the Green Bay Packers will sign defensive lineman Jaran Reid to a one-year deal. Reid spent last season with the Kansas City Chiefs, where he signed a one-year, $5.5 million contract in 2021. He started 17 games for the Chiefs and played 713 snaps defensively (64 percent) for Kansas City, the fifth-most. The most of any chief defender and any front-seven defender on the team. Reid had previously toured the Cincinnati Bengals last week.
Prior to 2021, Reid played his entire career with the Seattle Seahawks, who drafted him 49th overall in 2016. In five seasons at Seattle, Reid started in 80 games and lost 22 tackles and recorded 24.5 sacks. His effort was rewarded with a two-year, $23 million extension in 2020, but he was released as a cap casualty in the 2021 off-season.
In 2019, Reid, after his 10.5-sack breakout season, was suspended by the NFL for the first six games of the year for a personal conduct policy violation. While she was not charged or arrested, the league confirmed that the suspension was due to a 2017 incident in which a woman claimed Reed assaulted her at 3 a.m. Bellevue (Washington) Police initially opened a domestic violence case based on the incident but Reid was never charged.
When it was announced that the NFL had suspended Reid, despite local police failing to charge Reed, local media questioned why Reid was not charged and publicly dissected the police report. . According to the police report, Reid allegedly grabbed the woman by the throat, dragged her by her feet and ankles to the bedroom floor and stairs, followed her and was held back by people identified as other Seahawks employees. First broke a bathroom door.
The signing of Reid gives the Green Bay Packers the fifth internal defensive lineman on the roster after January's losses to Tyler Lancaster (contract terminated) and Kingsley Keke (pardoned).