{"id":93845,"date":"2025-08-27T06:55:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=93845"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:55:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:55:53","slug":"chiefs-roster-news-tracker-signings-cuts-waiver-claims-practice-squad-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=93845","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs roster news tracker: signings, cuts, waiver claims, practice squad and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/GFahXF0ngvDsN3Vq5dVYBQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTQyNztjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/sb_nation_articles_115\/f30290561bdad3fb6c3c5c340e054cdc\" alt=\"Arrowheadlines: The Chiefs offense looks elite again - Yahoo Sports\" \/>On Tuesday, the Kansas City Chiefs reduced their 2025 roster to 53 players. Over the next few days, the Chiefs will assemble their 2025 practice squad while churning their active roster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>From Tuesday night through Wednesday morning, NFL teams will be burning the midnight oil, evaluating more than 1,000 players who were cut from league rosters.<\/p>\n<p>Some \u2014 like just-released Chiefs Mike Pennel and Robert Tonyan \u2014 are free agents who can be signed right away. Others \u2014 such as Kansas City\u2019s just-waived Chris Oladokun and Esa Pole \u2014 can be claimed by other teams on waivers.<\/p>\n<p>If a claim is successful \u2014 that is, if there is not a competing claim from a team earlier in the waiver order \u2014 the team assumes the player\u2019s existing contract. Claimed players must be added to the new team\u2019s 53-man active roster \u2014 meaning that a team must be prepared to cut someone else to make room for the new player.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs \u2014 as losers of Super Bowl LIX \u2014 are 31st in the waiver order.<\/p>\n<p>Waiver claims can be submitted until 11 a.m. Arrowhead Time on Wednesday. Players who go unclaimed by that time \u201cclear\u201d waivers. They become free agents who can be signed to any team\u2019s active roster or practice squad.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Reserve\/Injured return eligibility<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p>Each team will have until 3 p.m. Arrowhead Time on Wednesday to name players currently on its Reserve\/Injured list who will be eligible for designations to return.<\/p>\n<p>Each team may do this for only two players \u2014 and for each one named as eligible, the number of return designations the team may make in the season (eight for most, but 10 for teams that make it to the postseason) is reduced by one \u2014 even if that player is ever designated for return.<\/p>\n<p>So if teams have more than two players they might want to return from IR, they will have to be on the 53-man roster through Wednesday before they are placed on that list. This way, they will automatically be eligible for return designations.<\/p>\n<p>This may be why the Chiefs released veterans like Pennel and Tonyan \u2014 so they could put injured players like Jalen Royals or Omarr Norman-Lott on Reserve\/Injured for the first four games of the season, replacing them with the veteran players. Teams and veterans sometimes have an understanding: the player will be re-signed immediately after the injured player goes on IR.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Kansas City has set its 53-man roster, more moves are coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":93849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chiefs roster news tracker: signings, cuts, waiver claims, practice squad and more - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=93845\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chiefs roster news tracker: signings, cuts, waiver claims, practice squad and more - 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