When a team experiences the kind of once-in-a-generation success that the Kansas City Chiefs have experienced, the organization has to pull out all the stops to ensure that the winning continues for as long as possible. As the Chiefs continue preparing for the 2024 NFL season and a shot at their third Super Bowl title in as many years, Kansas City head coach Andy Reid is taking an unusual approach to staying ahead of the curve.

Among the Chiefs’ training camp invitees this summer is a former AFC West rival coach who has effectively been exiled from the NFL’s ranks following the public disclosure of racist and homophobic emails that he had sent to a league executive. That coach is Jon Gruden — and he has Patrick Mahomes’ approval, as well as Reid’s, to be around a team that is chasing NFL history in 2024.

Gruden has been observing the Chiefs’ workouts this month as training camp nears its end and the preseason begins. The former head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers hasn’t worked in an official capacity in the NFL since he resigned from the Raiders job in 2021, amidst the spiraling email scandal.