Kansas City Chiefs 2016 roster: Thoughts and musings

It’s time to analyze the Kansas City Chiefs’ 53-man roster.

As I sit down to write this on Sunday afternoon the news of the Kansas City Chiefs roster moves continues to come in. In the past several days the Chiefs have made multiple cuts, trades, and signings as they try to finalize their 53-man roster for their week one game next Sunday against the San Diego Chargers. Overall I’m incredibly happy with the Chiefs roster. KC has as deep of team as we have seen in a very long time and the fact that they had to cut some promising players is actually a very good thing.

The team that Andy Reid and John Dorsey took over when they arrived couldn’t cut any promising players because the roster was so paper thin when it came to talent. In fact, the Chiefs famously pilfered the waiver wire after cuts and filled out their roster with cast offs from other teams. Now, a few years later the Chiefs are one of the NFL’s deep teams that has other teams looking at their cast offs. That’s progress.

While the Chiefs have a deep and talented roster and I believe they are poised to make another playoff run this season I do think some of the moves they have made are interesting to look at. When you do have a deep roster it makes cuts less obvious and more open for debate. So I thought before the first game takes place this coming Sunday (woo hoo!) I’d take one last look at the moves they’ve made and where the roster stands going forward.

I’ll tackle one move at a time and look at the possible pros and cons of each of these moves and where I personally come down on each of them. Let’s start with the move I like the least.

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