Kansas City Chiefs star Justin Reid tries to trick fans with bombshell RETIREMENT statement on April Fools’ Day – before tweeting a Jim Carrey gif to assure fans he is playing next year!

Another said: ‘This was the first April Fools joke that got me and it’s only 9:30am!’.

Reid and the Chiefs are gearing up for a shot at history next season as they bid to record an unprecedent Super Bowl ‘three-peat’.

Reid will enter the final year of his three-year, $31.5m deal with the Chiefs next season. But Reid was quick to make sure fans knew he was joking, tweeting the Jim Carry peeking out gif – much to the relief of many Kansas City fans.

‘I hate today. Wake me up when April 2nd starts,’ one fan wrote back to him.