Kansas City Chiefs 2016 roster: Thoughts and musings

The Chiefs lose two quarterbacks.

The Chiefs have spent two draft picks on quarterbacks since Andy Reid arrived in Kansas City and they were both released and then snatched up by other teams this weekend. 2014 draft pick Aaron Murray was added to the Arizona Cardinals practice squad and then this year’s fifth-round pick Kevin Hogan decided to sign on with the Cleveland Browns (also on the practice squad).

We don’t know anything for sure, but I would guess that the Chiefs wanted to add Hogan to their own practice squad but he chose to go somewhere where he had a greater chance of making the 53-man roster eventually.

Some people in the Chiefs Kingdom were upset by this. I get that, it would definitely be better if one of the fifth round picks that KC drafted turned out to be so promising that they wouldn’t dare let another team get their hands on them.

However, the odds of a 5th round draft pick becoming your franchise quarterback are very, very slim. It was clear by the end of the final preseason game that Aaron Murray hadn’t come as far as the Chiefs would have liked, so his release was not a surprise. Murray may develop into a NFL backup and maybe even an occasional spot starter but that appears to be his ceiling. Kevin Hogan is a little harder to lose since he was just a rookie.

Most experts agreed that he was more likely to be a backup in the NFL than a starter. Had he set the world on fire in training camp and the preseason he could have landed the number three job, but he didn’t.

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