Former Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Jordan Devey has died, according to a post from his wife on social media Thursday night. He was 38.
Linsey Devey shared the news on Instagram and included the words her husband said to her last: “We’ll talk soon.”
“Today would have been our 15th year anniversary,” Linsey Devey posted on Instagram. “We have filled the walls of our homes and hearts with countless memories, joys, struggles, and triumphs.
“We brought 4 beautiful children into this world that have your eyes, freckles, and compassion. You were our hero and our hearts ache in your absence.
“We love you. We miss you. And as you said in your last words to me, ‘we’ll talk soon.’”
A GoFundMe page linked by Linsey Devey said Jordan Devey took his own life.
Devey spent three seasons with the Chiefs starting in 2016, and after his playing career he became a well-known youth football coach. He and his family lived for a time in Johnson County, where they and their business partners opened two California-based Cookie Co. locations in 2023. Both are now closed.
“Kansas City loves Kansas City,” he told The Star at the time. “There’s so many big things going on here.”
Devey’s path to the NFL was anything but ordinary. As a child, he dealt with Osgood-Schlatter disease, a painful knee condition that kept him off the football field for several years when he was in eighth grade.
While he was sidelined, he picked up the tuba and later joined the American Fork High School marching band in Utah, which was nationally acclaimed. He performed at President George W.
Bush’s Inaugural Parade in 2005, and that tuba talent followed him throughout his NFL career.
After high school, he spent two years in Costa Rica as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Once his knee problems eased, the 6-foot-7, 250-pound Devey walked on at Snow College in Utah and later finished at the University of Memphis before entering the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 2013.
He played for six NFL teams in all: the Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Ravens, New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers, Raiders and Chiefs. He was on the Patriots team that won the Super Bowl in 2015.
News of his death quickly spread through the Eagle, Idaho, youth football community, where Devey was a popular coach. The Eagle Stallions football team said on Instagram, “There are people who leave a legacy far greater than wins and losses. Jordan Devey was one of those people,” and added that his impact on youth sports “wasn’t measured by trophies or championships-it was measured by the lives he touched.”
The team said he believed in kids, gave his time, shared his knowledge and helped build confidence, character and a love for the game. It also said he made every player feel seen, every family feel welcome and every team stronger because he was there.
“The fields won’t feel the same without him, but his influence will never leave them. Every practice, every game, every lesson about teamwork, perseverance, and doing things the right way carries a piece of what Jordan stood for.
“Our community has lost an incredible mentor, coach, and friend, but his legacy will continue to live on through the generations of young athletes he inspired.
“Rest easy, Coach.”
Robert Gillis, a member of the Eagle City Council, also wrote on Facebook Friday about a developer and family who came to a city council meeting in May to “advocate for a large home build in the Avimor area.”
“During the hearing, I discovered the hopeful homeowner was an Eagle High School Football Coach named Jordan Devey.
“He was a very big strong healthy looking man who was very respectful and likeable. Even though that night, we did not approve the build without some amendments, he left our meeting very respectfully.
“I was extremely sad to get the phone calls and texts last night, which notified me that Coach Devey had died ... I am a huge advocate for mental health and wellness.
“We never know the internal demons and stressors that people in our sphere are facing. They can put on happy faces and act as though they have everything handled, and then something like this occurs.
“It is not a unique issue with any special demographic or economic group in our society. Suicide has no boundaries and it has unfortunately touched a lot of lives in our country, state, valley, and city.
It is something we may not be able to prevent, but we have to do better to keep trying. Every life is worth saving.”
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