Template:Kansas City Chiefs retired numbers

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Kansas City Chiefs retired numbers
No. Player Position Tenure
3 Jan Stenerud K 1967–1979
16 Len Dawson QB 1962–1975
18 Emmitt Thomas CB 1966–1978
28 Abner Haynes RB 1960–1964
33 Stone Johnson 1 2 RB 1963
36 Mack Lee Hill 2 RB 1964–1965
58 Derrick Thomas 2 LB 1989–1999
63 Willie Lanier LB 1967–1977
78 Bobby Bell LB 1963–1974
86 Buck Buchanan DT 1963–1975
1 Never on a Chiefs regular season roster. His number was retired after his death after an injury in a preseason game in 1963.
2 Number was posthumously retired.
Names in bold spent entire playing career with the Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs.
The number 37 has not been worn since the death of Joe Delaney.
Number 58 was not issued after the death of Derrick Thomas until it was officially retired in 2009.
The numbers 16 and 28 are the only numbers to have been worn by a single player (both Dawson and Haynes respectively).