https://www.yahoo.com/sports/blogs/...olating-tampering-rule-in-2015-230715320.html
The Kansas City Chiefs will have two draft picks, including a third-round pick this year, taken from them after the NFL determined that they violated the league's anti-tampering rules in 2015 when allegedly making direct contact with free agent-to-be Jeremy Maclin.
Maclin was still under contract with the Philadelphia Eagles at the time, during the league's pre-free agency "negotiating period" — often called the "legal tampering" period — last offseason. Teams are not allowed to have direct contact with prospective free agents, only their representatives, until the start of the new league year.
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The Chiefs are slated to lose the 91st overall pick in this year's draft, as well as as sixth-rounder in 2017. Fines also were assessed — a team fine of $250,000, with head coach Andy Reid fined $75,000 and general manager John Dorsey fined $25,000.
The team reportedly plans to appeal the league's decision, and it has five days in which to notify the league of that.