{"id":820803,"date":"2026-03-19T07:52:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T07:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/820803\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T07:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T07:52:27","slug":"chase-daniel-and-wife-reveal-how-last-minute-chiefs-signing-saved-long-distance-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/820803\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Daniel and wife reveal how \u2018last-minute\u2019 Chiefs signing saved long-distance romance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Chase Daniel in action for the Chiefs in 2014, Image 2 shows Chase Daniel recalled signing with the Chiefs in a YouTube video with his wife, Hillary<\/p>\n

Chiefs love stories<\/a> aren\u2019t limited to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.<\/p>\n

Just ask former Kansas City backup quarterback Chase Daniel and his wife, Hillary, who recently detailed on Daniel\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a> how NFL free agency in 2013 served as something of a Hail Mary for the couple during their long-distance romance.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s going into free agency for 2013, unrestricted free agent, and we know we\u2019re not going back to New Orleans; we can sign anywhere. I was also like, gosh, I don\u2019t know if I can keep doing this long-distance thing,\u201d said Hillary, who served as a morning news anchor for an NBC affiliate in Topeka, Kansas.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou found out very last minute, like, I hate to implicate anybody but, a couple of days before free agency, Chase texts me like, \u2018Hey, by the way, the Chiefs are interested,\u2019 and if you\u2019re familiar with the geography of the Midwest, well, Topeka is in the viewing area of \u2026 the Chiefs. And I remember texting him like, I\u2019m not going to get my hopes up here because that would be amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201camazing\u201d moment came to fruition in March 2013 when the Chiefs and Daniel agreed to a pact with the quarterback backing up Alex Smith.<\/p>\n

\u201cChase texts me, I remember Sunday night I was staying the night at my parents\u2019, and you\u2019re like, \u2018I think I\u2019m going to be a Chief,\u2019 and I remember that day and the day you signed, probably like top-five core memories from our relationship\u2026\u00a0 Happiest, most exciting moments,\u201d Hillary said.<\/p>\n

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Chase Daniel recalled signing with the Chiefs in a YouTube video with his wife, Hillary. Chase Daniel\/X<\/p>\n

An undrafted free agent out of Mizzou in 2009, Daniel spent three seasons in Kansas City (2013 to 2015) before stints with the Eagles, Bears, Lions and Chargers. He returned to the Saints for the 2017 and retired in September 2023.<\/p>\n

Daniel and Hillary tied the knot in 2014, the quarterback\u2019s second year in Kansas City, and are parents to three children.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs are currently in the midst of free agency as they look to move on from a dismal 6-11 season in 2025.<\/p>\n

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Chase Daniel in action for the Chiefs in 2014. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Kansas City has since added Super Bowl 2026 MVP Kenneth Walker from the Seahawks, and re-signed tight end Kelce, 36,<\/a> to a one-year, $12 million contract.<\/p>\n

Kelce, a three-time Super Bowl champion with the organization, is expected to wed<\/a> Swift, also 36, before the start of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Chase Daniel in action for the Chiefs in 2014,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[6261,1242,346,7,4609,94836,118,110,2438,2437,896,6,2592,4205,1866,500,5098],"class_list":["post-820803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-alex","tag-chase-daniel","tag-chiefs","tag-football","tag-free-agency","tag-hillary","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascitychiefs","tag-new-orleans","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-free-agency","tag-taylor-swift","tag-the-chiefs","tag-travis-kelce","tag-youtube"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116254759921463076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}