KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs trimmed their preseason roster on Tuesday as they put together for his or her season opener on Sept. 5.
The back-to-back defending Tremendous Bowl champions launched extensive receiver Kadarius Toney, in accordance with NFL Community insider Ian Rapoport.
Within the offseason, the Chiefs had declined to choose up Toney’s fifth-year possibility. Toney performed a major position within the Chiefs Tremendous Bowl LVII win over Philadelphia with a receiving landing and a Tremendous Bowl report 65-yard punt return to arrange one other rating. However his manufacturing declined in 2023 and he was left off the Tremendous Bowl LVIII lively roster as a wholesome scratch.
Dianna Russini with The Athletic reported the Chiefs tried to commerce Toney, however ended up releasing him.
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Broad receiver Justyn Ross was additionally waived on Tuesday, in accordance with Bleacher Report’s Jordan Schultz. Ross had six catches for 53 yards in six video games over the 2023 season. He signed a three-year, $2.56 million contract with the Chiefs on Could 6, 2022. He didn’t play in 2022 whereas recovering from an harm.
The Chiefs additionally launched working again Louis Rees-Zammit, Schultz reported. Rees-Zammit, a rugby star from Gloucester, signed with the Chiefs in March via the NFL’s Worldwide Participant Pathway program.
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The Chiefs mentioned they positioned defensive finish Charles Omenihu on the Bodily Unable to Carry out Checklist — which means he can’t return for at the very least the primary 4 video games of the 2024 season. Omenihu tore his ACL throughout Kansas Metropolis’s AFC Championship Sport in January.
After struggling a cardiac arrest throughout a staff assembly in June, defensive finish BJ Thompson stays on the Non-Soccer Harm Checklist coming into the season.
In all, Kansas Metropolis waived the next gamers:
- Operating again Emani Bailey
- Linebacker Swayze Bozeman
- Tight finish Baylor Cupp
- Defensive deal with Neil Farrell
- Sort out Chukwuebuka Godrick
- Cornerback Kamal Hadden
- Operating again Keaontay Ingram
- Linebacker Curtis Jacobs
- Defensive finish Truman Jones
- Defensive deal with Fabien Lovett
- Cornerback D.J. Miller
- Offensive deal with Lucas Niang
- Quarterback Chris Oladokun
- Broad receiver Cornell Powell
- Operating again Deneric Prince
- Operating again Louis-Rees-Zammit
- Broad receiver Nikko Remigio
- Broad receiver Justyn Ross
- Cornerback Keith Taylor
- Broad receiver Kadarius Toney
- Broad receiver Montrell Washington
The Chiefs launched the next veterans:
- Security Deon Bush
- Linebacker Cole Christiansen
- Defensive deal with Matt Dickerson
- Tight finish Irv Smith
And former Mizzou security Tyree Gillespie was waived with an harm designation.
NFL groups needed to trim their rosters to 53 gamers by Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m. CT.
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