Chiefs make 2 more roster moves on Wednesday

After the Kansas City Chiefs made a number of roster strikes on Tuesday, friend-of-the-site Matt Derrick of Chiefs Digest has reported two more on Wednesday: the staff has activated practice-squad defensive again Nazeeh Johnson to the 53-man roster, whereas re-signing linebacker Elijah Lee to the follow squad.

Beginning Tuesday with 53 gamers on the energetic roster and 14 on the follow squad, the Chiefs first released Kansas City-area native Lee — a vested veteran who due to this fact didn’t should cross via waivers — from the energetic roster and signed defensive tackle Cortez Broughton to the follow squad. Broughton had been launched from the staff’s Reserve/Injured checklist with an damage settlement on August 5. Each of those strikes appeared on Tuesday’s NFL transactions report.

Then we discovered that the staff intended to sign former Jacksonville Jaguars placekicker Matthew Wright to the follow squad. That transfer would depart the Chiefs with 52 on the roster and the follow squad at its full complement of 16. Now with Wednesday’s strikes, each the roster and the taxi squad are full.

Lee began the season on the practice squad — from which he was elevated for the Week 1 sport towards the Arizona Cardinals. Then he was activated to the 53-man roster for the following two video games. Now it’s seemingly that Lee will once more be elevated to the energetic roster for no less than the following sport or two — and now that he’s been signed to a brand new practice-squad contract, he could be elevated for as much as three regular-season video games.

Arrowhead Pleasure editor-in-chief Pete Sweeney joked on Twitter that Kansas Metropolis has “that 55-man roster going.” And that’s precisely what these strikes are doing: making it potential for the staff to make use of as a lot of its younger gamers as potential — whereas additionally creating tiny quantities of wiggle room beneath a really tight wage cap scenario.