{"id":94224,"date":"2025-08-28T07:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=94224"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:06:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:06:33","slug":"kansas-city-chiefs-bring-back-former-samford-qb-for-a-fourth-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=94224","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs bring back former Samford QB for a fourth season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<nav aria-label=\"articleLabel\">\n<ol id=\"articleLabel__list\">\n<li id=\"articleLabel__listItem\">Sports<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<ul>\n<li><time datetime=\"2025-08-27175633027500021:31:15\">Updated: Aug. 27, 2025, 9:31 p.m.<\/time><\/li>\n<li><span aria-hidden=\"true\">|<\/span><time datetime=\"2025-08-27175632960400021:20:04\">Published: Aug. 27, 2025, 9:20 p.m.<\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\">\n<article id=\"arc-HNBMP3C6UVEDRFRZXGGBOUPBOE\" data-type=\"article\">\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<div><picture><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/resizer\/v2\/WZZ2XI7LORBGVFQWNB2CKM2OZ4.jpg?auth=0d86647e21c511dd8db6948b3892e70a2c3ed8dd127fffa2331cce83eb1ffa83&amp;width=1280&amp;quality=90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/resizer\/v2\/WZZ2XI7LORBGVFQWNB2CKM2OZ4.jpg?auth=0d86647e21c511dd8db6948b3892e70a2c3ed8dd127fffa2331cce83eb1ffa83&amp;width=500&amp;quality=90 500w, https:\/\/www.al.com\/resizer\/v2\/WZZ2XI7LORBGVFQWNB2CKM2OZ4.jpg?auth=0d86647e21c511dd8db6948b3892e70a2c3ed8dd127fffa2331cce83eb1ffa83&amp;width=800&amp;quality=90 800w, https:\/\/www.al.com\/resizer\/v2\/WZZ2XI7LORBGVFQWNB2CKM2OZ4.jpg?auth=0d86647e21c511dd8db6948b3892e70a2c3ed8dd127fffa2331cce83eb1ffa83&amp;width=1280&amp;quality=90 1280w\" alt=\"Kansas City Chiefs bring back former Samford QB for a fourth season\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Chris Oladokun scrambles under pressure from Seattle Seahawks linebacker Jamie Sheriff during an NFL preseason game on Aug. 15, 2025, at Lumen Field in Seattle.(AP Photo\/John Froschauer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"CY4AW3HCLVCLTH3SGQBQ3F6D2M\">Former Samford quarterback Chris Oladokun played in an NFL regular-season game for the first time on Jan. 1, when he took five snaps for the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p id=\"J2NESWHXYJCRNMHWH23YYQCVLM\">But by that time Oladokun had won two Super Bowl rings with the Chiefs, and although Kansas City waived the quarterback on Tuesday, he\u2019ll be back for a fourth season with the Chiefs in 2025.<\/p>\n<p id=\"QNAXZENM4VEHLO6N3PQVFY3IZU\">Kansas City kept two quarterbacks \u2013 starter Patrick Mahomes and backup Gardner Minshew \u2013 when it reduced its preseason roster to the regular-season limit of 53 active players on Tuesday. Waived in that process, Oladokun re-signed with the Chiefs for their practice squad on Wednesday after he went unclaimed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"XD7TPDIBHVGOROTM2OPKNKMK24\">Since the Pittsburgh Steelers cut the seventh-round rookie during the 2022 preseason, Oladokun has spent most of the intervening time on Kansas City\u2019s practice squad.<\/p>\n<p id=\"7RTJQ2NGSFBUBO72H7NL3NNH6Y\">Each NFL team can have a practice squad of 16 players. Members of the practice squad do everything the players on the active roster do except play in games.<\/p>\n<p id=\"NVULORG7MVANFPXTZS76RN4EVE\">But two practice-squad members can be elevated to active status for each game, although no player can be elevated from the practice squad more than three times in a season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"TRQCV4KZYRFJXA5CQUBDCFTQSM\">Oladokun is among the nine players from Alabama high schools and colleges (except for Alabama and Auburn) who rejoined the teams that had just cut them as practice-squad members on Wednesday. The others were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"YYFR5PDAEBGXRJ6SFYZ4QTLUNU\">Cornerback Cobee Bryant (Hillcrest-Evergreen) by the Atlanta Falcons<\/li>\n<li id=\"TYN32FC52JHD7BY7WVKFEFFZQY\">Linebacker Jamil Muhammad (James Clemens) with the Los Angeles Rams<\/li>\n<li id=\"AZW5KCQLNVD6ZBHLBXPLTRC6BI\">Wide receiver Tejhaun Palmer (UAB) with the Arizona Cardinals<\/li>\n<li id=\"V36I3HC7FRDL3B5EJRS2UZ2DPE\">Wide receiver Jamaal Pritchett (Jackson, South Alabama) by the New York Jets<\/li>\n<li id=\"JJKGEFMN65D5BFCJ77WBWFILAA\">Linebacker Jamie Sheriff (South Alabama) by the Seattle Seahawks<\/li>\n<li id=\"ZNEC7XXUOJAA7GHOZMI23TT7G4\">Safety Cam\u2019Ron Silmon-Craig (Fultondale) by the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/li>\n<li id=\"PFUGF6UXMNHVPEFZKKW4ZA62XU\">Running back Kimani Vidal (Troy) by the Los Angeles Chargers<\/li>\n<li id=\"CCXXPGSKXBEHPKZ4U6BUH5XGNU\">Wide receiver Jeremiah Webb (South Alabama) by the New England Patriots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"N3UR5TYMKFGVLADE4GAT5UNJ34\">Bryant, Muhammad, Pritchett, Silmon-Craig and Webb are undrafted rookies. 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