Laddie Morse
Mercurial, meanings:
• Mercurial can be used to describe someone who has a mood that changes… unpredictably.
• Mercurial can also be used to describe someone who is… quick-witted, or enthusiastic.
• Mercurial can also refer to something that contains, is caused by, or relates to mercury.
• Mercurial can also refer to something that relates to the planet or god Mercury.
• Mercurial is also the name of a distributed source control management system.
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• Or, Mercurial can best describe the changeability of the Chiefs Roster.
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The Kansas City Chiefs… well, that football team from Kansas City who calls themselves the Chiefs. Not only have the Chiefs made a number of changes this week, since Alchemy Day on Tuesday, but they have a 30% new roster (i.e., The 70% Solution). Does that make cheering for them a challenge? I’ll have to leave that up to the Kingdom fans who follow them to decide that one.
It’s been an amazing offseason for the Chiefs. It started off with the re-signing of LB Drue Tranquill and it may — or may not — end up with the signing of another LB, Nick Bolton. One thing we have found out for sure is… who will be L’Jarius Sneed’s replacement: Jaylen Watson. Which I did expect all along.
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Having found this out just yesterday, we kind of need to go back through the week’s moves to find out what has transpired?
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Alchemy Day Moves
On Tuesday, August 27th — Alchemy Day — the Chiefs whittled their roster down to 53 men from the 90 they had last week. That’s a total of 37 men they cut or parted ways with. First, let’s jump backwards one more day, to Monday.
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Monday
It actually started on Monday, the 26th, when they re-signed WR JuJu Smith-Schuster.
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Tuesday
The Chiefs also announced the waiving of numerous players on Tuesday including:
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CB, Miles Battle
QB, Ian Book
CB, Ekow Boye-Doe
WR, Phillip Brooks
DE, Owen Carney
DT, Alex Gubner
CB, Kelvin Joseph
OG, Griffin McDowell
LS, Randen Plattner
WR, Kyle Sheets
TE, Geor’quarius Spivey
OG, Nick Torres
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Tuesday
On the 27th, by 4:00 PM Eastern time, the Chiefs took the follwing actions:
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Traded for: TE, Peyton Hendershot and DE Cameron Thomas
Placed on Reserve/PUP DE, Charles Omenihu
Placed on Reserve NFI DE, B.J. Thompson
Waived with an Injury Designation, S, Tyree Gillespie
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Also on Alchemy Day, they Waived these players:
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RB, Emani Bailey
LB, Swayze Bozeman
TE, Baylor Cupp
DT, Neil Farrell
OT, Chukwuebuka Godrick –IPPP designee
CB, Kamal Hadden
RB, Keaontay Ingram
LB, Curtis Jacobs
DE, Truman Jones
DT, Fabien Lovett
CB, D.J. Miller
OT, Lucas Niang
QB, Chris Oladokun
WR, Cornell Powell
RB, Deneric Prince
RB, Louis Rees-Zammit
WR, Nikko Remigio
WR, Justyn Ross
CB, Keith Taylor
WR, Kadarius Toney
WR, Montrell Washington
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Plus, veteran players which were Released included:
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S, Deon Bush
LB, Cole Christiansen
DT, Matt Dickerson
TE, Irv Smith
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Wednesday
On Wednesday, the 28th of August, the Chiefs claimed this player from the Dallas Cowboys:
CB, Eric Scott Jr.
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Players they signed to the Practice Squad on Wednesday included:
RB, Emani Bailey
LB, Swayze Bozeman
S, Deon Bush
LB, Cole Christiansen
TE, Baylor Cupp
DT, Matt Dickerson
DT, Neil Farrell
RB, Keaontay Ingram
DE, Truman Jones
DT, Fabien Lovett
OT, Lucas Niang
WR, Nikko Remigio
WR, Justyn Ross
CB, Keith Taylor
WR, Montrell Washington
OT, Chukwuebuka Godrick – IPPP designee signed to the PS
The Chiefs also waived a player on Wednesday:
CB, Nic Jones
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Friday
Then, on Friday, the Chiefs made a curious move by waiving Eric Scott Jr. just two days after claiming him from the Cowboys. From an article at ArrowheadPride called, “The Chiefs made six roster moves on Friday.” John Dixon shared:
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“… the team was signing veteran Samaje Perine
to its 53-man roster… made room for the running
back by waiving Eric Scott…. signing former New
England Patriots quarterback Bailey Zappe to their
practice squad…. made that move possible by
releasing running back Emani Bailey…. [the] full
complement of 53 active-roster players and
17 practice-squad players [is met].”
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Dixon points out that Chukwuebuka Godrick doesn’t count against the 16 limit of Practice Squad player because he’s an IPPP designee. RB Emani Bailey’s Practice Squad contract was also terminated. Dixon goes on to estimate the Salary Cap left after all the Chiefs moves:
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“We now estimate that the team has between
$4.9 million and $5.0 million in cap space —
likely $5.0 million.”
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Also late on Friday, the Chiefs signed a former Philadelphia Eagles player, Marlon Tuipulotu. Tuipulotu was a 6th round pick by the Eagles in 2021.
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Saturday
Pete Sweeney is reporting that this is the “un-official” depth chart of the Chiefs as of Saturday, August 31:
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What do you think?
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Laddie Morse — ArrowheadOne
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