Former Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jim Lynch has passed away. The death was confirmed by the franchise earlier this week after Lynch, a player from 1967 to 1977, died at his Kansas City home on Thursday night, July 21st.
Lynch entered the National Football League as a second-round pick of Kansas City in the 1967 draft, after a standout career at Notre Dame that included All-American status, along with winning the Maxwell Trophy and named co-captain of the 1966 Fighting Irish team that won the national championship.
Upon his arrival in Kansas City, Lynch fit in immediately with future Hall of Fame linebackers Bobby Bell, and Willie Lanier, the legendary middle linebacker picked in the third round in, with his presence sliding Lynch outside. Jim Lynch, a starter on the Super Bowl IV championship team, was named to the Chiefs’ Hall of Fame in 1990.
