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The Kansas City Chiefs have announced that defensive end Eric Hicks has been released after nearly a decade with the team. He has spent his entire NFL career in Kansas City.

"Eric has been an excellent football player for the Kansas City Chiefs and a superb representative of this organization in the community these past nine years," team president Carl Peterson said in a release. "Eric is one of the best college free agents that we have signed since ’89. We congratulate he and wife, Erica, for undertaking so many charity endeavors in Kansas City . We will always consider them a part of the Chiefs family."

Translation -- we love ya, and we always will. Now get the hell out of here.

Hicks was under contract through 2009 at salaries over the next three years of $2.9 million, $2.5 million, and $2.5 million. He appeared in 16 games last season, but started none. He has 44 career sacks; zero in 2006.

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