The Chiefs Mercurial Roster

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 28^th 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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