The Kansas City Chiefs will face the Chicago Bears in their final 2025 preseason game Friday night at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.<\/p>\n
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On Wednesday, head coach Andy Reid ruled out seven players due to injury: tight end Jake Briningstool (hamstring), linebacker Jack Cochrane (knee), offensive tackle Ethan Driskell (appendix), safety Mike Edwards (hamstring), cornerback Nazeeh Johnson (shoulder), defensive tackle Omarr Norman-Lott (ankle) and wide receiver Jaylen Royals (knee).<\/p>\n
Reid confirmed that after resting quarterback Patrick Mahomes, tight end Travis Kelce and defensive tackle Chris Jones \u2014 among other top players \u2014 last week in Seattle, he plans to play the starters for at least the start of Friday night\u2019s game against Chicago.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s just a little bit longer wait here in between this game and the next game, and so I just think I\u2019d rather give the guys a little bit more time in this game,\u201d he said. \u201cThe timing keeps a little closer to when we get to our game.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n As of Wednesday, it remains unclear if that includes wide receiver Hollywood Brown, who returned to practice this week after missing a large portion of training camp and the first two preseason games due to an ankle injury.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m gonna just play that by ear,\u201d said Reid of Brown. \u201cI\u2019m gonna see how it does through warmups and all that. We\u2019ll just kind of go from there. This is day-by-day right there, so I want no steps backward on that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Cornerback Kristian Fulton has also yet to see preseason action, though he has practiced the past two weeks after beginning the summer session on the physically-unable-to-perform (PUP) list.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll see how that rolls with him and see how he feels and go from there,\u201d said Reid of Fulton.<\/em><\/p>\n Following their final preseason game on Friday, the Chiefs will look ahead to cutdown day on Tuesday, August 26.<\/p>\n \u201cEverybody can\u2019t make the team; they know that,\u201d said Reid. \u201cI tell them that Day 1: \u2018Just make our job hard,\u2019 so they make it hard for (general manager) [Brett] Veach and his crew and the coaches, to get rid of them. And that\u2019s how they\u2019ve gone about their business. I haven\u2019t seen guys counting numbers and lines and doing all that stuff. They\u2019ve come out and worked hard from the first guy to the last guy, and I\u2019ve appreciated that, and it\u2019s a tough day. I mean, that\u2019s not part of the job you like, but inevitably, you gotta almost cut half a team, so that\u2019s not an easy thing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Kansas City opens the regular season Friday, September 5, against the Los Angeles Chargers in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil \u2014 exactly two weeks after their final preseason game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kansas City Chiefs will face the Chicago Bears in their final 2025 preseason game Friday night at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. On Wednesday, head coach… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"\n