Yahoo News : Peyton Hillis, last year?s Madden cover boy, lands i

Peyton Hillis' Madden Curse is apparently over, and he's moving on in its wake. A year after gracing the cover of the ubiquitous video game, the unrestricted free agent running back has agreed to move on from the Cleveland Browns to the Kansas City Chiefs, signing a one-year, $3 million deal on Wednesday. Hillis, a seventh-round pick of the Denver Broncos in 2008, Hillis first showed flashed of greatness in his rookie season, when he led the team with just 343 yards in Mike Shanahan's last year with the franchise after a series of injuries made his presence necessary. Hillis' role was reduced in 2009 under new head coach Josh McDaniels, and he was involved in the worst personel decision McDaniels made during a history of them in Denver -- on March 14, 2010, McDaniels traded Hillis AND a sixth-round pick to the Browns for quarterback Brady Quinn. Hillis' first season in Cleveland made McDaniels look even sillier. While Quinn sat on the bench in Denver, Hillis gained 1,177 yards and scored 11 touchdowns on 270 carries. He was supposed to be the heart and soul of the Browns' offense going into 2010, but after the Madden cover (cue the spooky music), everything started to go wrong. First, Hillis missed one game with strep throat on the advice of his agent, leading some to wonder whether he really had any medical issues at all. He further alienated the Browns faithful by no-showing to a children's charity event on Halloween , and by heading back to his home in Arkansas for his wedding when the team thought he was rehabbing an injury. Things got weirder when in November, when a group of Browns veterans sat Hillis down, intervention-style, and tried to help him regain his focus. As Yahoo's Mike Silver reported , nobody on the team could understand what Hillis problem was, though contract issues seemed to be at the heart of his dissatisfaction. "It's been a humbling experience," Hillis told Silver. "It's been a whirlwind coming from where I was to where I'm at now. I'm trying to grasp the whole situation and trying to deal with it. It's still a learning process and I'm trying to do the best I can."

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