on october 28, 2009, the chiefs suspended johnson until november 9 for "conduct detrimental to the club". they ultimately agreed to a deal with his agent, peter schaffer, in which he would only lose one game check ($300,000). at the time of the suspension, johnson was only 75 yards from passing priest holmes as the franchise's all-time leading rusher. this angered several fans, who started a petition demanding that the chiefs either deactivate, release or waive him. the petition said that johnson "has never represented anything close to the values that we have for our chiefs" and thus did not deserve the record.