Patrick Mahomes defended the Kansas City Chiefs' decision to re-sign running back Kareem Hunt years after he was caught on camera assaulting a woman.

Hunt, 30, signed with the Chiefs in September 2024 after an injury to running back Isiah Pacheco .

The decision came nearly six years after Kansas City released Hunt after TMZ posted a video in November 2018 that showed him shoving and kicking a woman inside a Cleveland hotel in February of that year.

No arrests were made and no charges were filed.

"What he did was wrong, but I know in his heart he isn't a bad person," Mahomes, 29, said during the second episode of The Kingdom , premiering Thursday, August 14, at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN. "It's how you can become better and learn from them. I think that's something that he embraced. H

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