Meet the 2019 Kansas City Chiefs

Meet the 2019 Kansas City Chiefs – here is a list of the players the Chiefs kept and will be going to Jacksonville in 6 days. Well, they usually dress out 46 players but these are the one’s they’ll choose from. This is as of late on Sunday evening, so, let me know if there are changes I’ve missed.

Offense

Quarterbacks – 2

1. 1. Patrick Mahomes
   2. Matt Moore

Running Backs – 6

1. 1. Damien Williams
   2. Darwin Thompson
   3. Lesean McCoy
   4. Darrel Williams
   5. Tremon Smith
   6. Anthony Sherman – FB

Tight Ends – 3

1. 1. Travis Kelce
   2. Blake Bell
   3. Deon Yelder

Wide Receivers – 5

1. 1. Tyreek Hill
   2. Sammy Watkins
   3. Demarcus Robinson
   4. Mecole Hardman
   5. Byron Pringle

Offensive Linemen – 10

1. 1. Eric Fisher
   2. Mitchell Schwartz
   3. LDT
   4. Andrew Wylie
   5. Austin Reiter
   6. Cam Erving
   7. Nick Allegretti
   8. Ryan Hunter
   9. Jeff Allen
   10. Martinas Rankin

Defense

Defensive Linemen – 9

1. 1. Frank Clark
   2. Chris Jones
   3. Alex Okafor
   4. Derrick Nnadi
   5. Xavier Williams
   6. Tanoh Kpassagnon
   7. Khalen Saunders
   8. Joey Ivie
   9. Emmanuel Ogbah

Linebackers – 6

1. 1. Anthony Hitchens
   2. Reggie Ragland
   3. Damien Wilson
   4. Darron Lee
   5. Ben Niemann
   6. Dorian O’Daniel

Cornerbacks – 4

1. 1. Kendall Fuller
   2. Bashaud Breeland.
   3. Charvarius Ward
   4. Rashad Fenton

Safeties – 5

1. 1. Tyrann Mathieu
   2. Daniel Sorensen
   3. Juan Thornhill
   4. Armani Watts
   5. Jordan Lucas

Special Teams – 3

1. 1. Dustin Colquitt
   2. Harrison Butker
   3. James Winchester

Practice Squad (Limit is 10)

1. 1. TE Nick Keizer
   2. WR Cody Thompson
   3. OL Jimmy Murray
   4. WR Jody Fortson
   5. RB Marcus Marshall
   6. QB Kyle Shurmur

Suspended

De’Anthony Thomas (out week one)

Injured Reserve

Chad Henne (designated to return during the season)

Breeland Speaks – IR (will not return, counts against the cap)

What sticks out to most of us first is… four CBs. Just remember that Brett Veach has stated, three of he Safeties can well play in coverage: Mathieu, Thornhill and Lucas. In fact, that has been a big part of his offseason plan at CB, to use the Safeties in coverage and that is one of the reasons Steve Spagnuolo was hired… because he likes to move his Safeties around to disguise coverages. Which, allows him to keep opposing QBs guessing. So, even if they had another very good CB to use, Spags would still employ this method on the back end.

CB Herb Miller tweeted out a strong message, even if it was vague as to whether or not he was cut.

Chiefs Twitter Litter is in a landslide and blowing up that Veach needs to sign a Cornerback. We all get that. Whether or not he will do that this week remains to be seen. Miami CB Xavien Howard’s name has been mentioned online but no one from the organization has made a peep as to whether or not he’s actually available. So, let’s not get our hopes up there.

While we’d all like to feel better about the defense and it’s chances moving forward, we’re not going to be able to see what we really have there for at least a month. It takes that long for a group that’s mostly new to each other and mostly new to the scheme to put it all together. Jacksonville, Oakland, Baltimore and Detroit. That should give the D enough time to understand what up in Spags approach. That’s also when Morris Claiborne will return adn give the back end a much needed boost. Go Chiefs!

Laddie Morse — ArrowheadOne

P.S. For your further edification and pleasure, here’s the link to a piece by Peter King called, “Why Super Bowl 54 WIll Be Chief-Saints“… enjoy!

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