Injury report this week?
 

It's Wednesday, and I assume we've had two practices so far this week.

Yet I do not see an injury report anywhere. Am I missing anything?

Injury report comes out today

Players aren’t even allowed in the building on Mondays and Tuesdays...unless that rule changed for the playoffs. Either way, King is correct. We should get some indication of players health today. Friday is obviously the most important day for practice updates.

I wonder if we hold back CEH for this game so he can run wild on the Bills again. I feel like this game will be very pass heavy (more than usual) for us given the Browns terrible secondary.

So, I'm hoping Sammy is in "Playoff Sammy" mode.

They won’t hold anyone back in a playoff game. If CEH is healthy enough to play it will be full go.

...and here’s to simply hoping Sammy can play let alone be “Playoff Sammy”.

The theory/expectation was that we hadn't used CEH all season very much in the passing game to save that for the playoffs, so if he is available I'm really hoping we have a new wrinkle with him involved more in the passing game. It was a little surprising all season to not see him used all that much on designed pass plays to the RB.

My understanding as well. Practices are Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Same as every week.

Activate Playoff Beast Mode for Watkins and Clark.

Get Hitchens and Gay back healthy.

Thornhill needs to start making big plays. Makes Mathieu's job a lot easier on back end.

Anything hear any word on Schwartz? Should we just all assume that he's not playing at all in the playoffs/SB?

I seriously doubt he can just step in and contribute after not even practicing for the past 3 months. You generally see guys coming off IR get worked back in gradually before they're activated, I've seen no mention of him practicing at all.

+ AFCCG Pennel

It's safe to assume Schwartz is done for the year.

Agreed. Very odd situation with him. Must not have gotten better, although Reid did mention a week or two ago that he was feeling better.

Okay so CEH is back but Sammy not? WTF?

Surely he’s gonna play.

Excellent news that CEH is back. Why am I not surprised about Sammy.

Watkins talked a little smack about Cleveland on Twitter Sunday night so he better ****ing play. Can’t be putting words out like that for your teammates to back you up.

Shit that’s frustrating.

He really didn't though.

All he was saying was that the game wasn't over yet. He tweeted that in the middle of the 1st quarter.

Not that I have much faith in the injury status of Watkins, but him not being there on the first day of practice isn't that big of a deal either. I'll be concerned if he isn't practicing by Friday.

I don’t think that’s what he was saying.

CEH

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Why?

There's absolutely nothing in his Tweet that points to it being a direct shot at Cleveland at all. Especially when there was 50 minutes left in the game and Pittsburgh could have still won.

I call BS.

He was replying to someone who said ‘looks like you have some competition next week’.

If he didn’t mean it toward the Browns, he did a really poor job of communicating what he was trying to say.

I’m so sick of Sammy’s bullshit. I don’t give a **** about what he did before in the playoffs.

He’s not a primary weapon. FFS he’s the ****ing 4th option in this offense. His broke ass is absolutely replaceable.

All he said is "I wouldn't go that far" which of course makes total sense considering it was still the first quarter.

Maybe not worded the best but certainly not worded in any way that insinuates he was disrespecting the Browns, unless that's what people want to read into it on their own.

Wrap his delicate little tootsies in bubble wrap so he can do his job for 3 more games then kick his ass to the curb.

Yep.

Watkins will be play, just relax.

I’m not even worried about it. You’ll see.

We need Willie Gay back.

Not really. He'd be nice to have for sure but not a "need". Dude only plays about 25% of the snaps per game.

Dude roasted Richard Sherman to help us win the Super Bowl.

Imma give him a little leeway before I storm the Capitol over his injuries.

We have Chubb and Hunt, two prolific running backs. We’re gonna need some speed on defense.

I imagine reporters watch practice with a clipboard checking off attendance like a substitute teacher LMAO

Absolutely. Pretty sure he'll manage to play Sunday.

Now going forward after this season? Sayonara.

Watkins felt good enough to talk shit on the Browns over Twitter. Hopefully he's planning to back that up on Sunday.

Can we be done with Watkins, please? My god.

Basically it's about this. Some people have decided to take a post that Sammy made and make it into something more. I get CLE fans and even the team doing it; gotta grab at any kind of BB material for motivation. I wish that some CLE player would say something dumb to give the Chiefs a little of that edge.

But let's be real: Sammy doesn't have a history of shit-talking. He's not OBJ/Diggs/DHop or someone like that. He's pretty humble. For WR anyway.

I ****ing hope so after this season. Draft a new X receiver in the first round and move the **** on from broke ass.

It's kind of impressive. There are so many players all over the place. Most not turned where you can see their names, many not even numbers. Subbing in and out and running in all different directions. And then you gotta turn around and report who you couldn't find and hope you didn't just miss it.

He and juju will both be free agents for a reason.

Well, we don't have it. And even if Gay was healthy, he wasn't going to play more than 25% or so of the snaps.

It is what it is.

Yeah, that's exactly what they do because it's their job as sportswriters.


What? It's in no way, "impressive". Anyone can print out Chiefs jersey numbers from their website and match them up.

Plus, Reid generally addresses guys that missed practice.

Wakins can’t go Sunday give me Bryron Pringle.

Let him go be someone else's problem.

Unless he goes off in the playoffs you've got to think we part ways. OBJ or a first rounder for his replacement please.

In theory, that was supposed to be Hardman.

OBJ has played even less than Watkins.

OBJ? Wth? Are we talking about the guy that is sitting in bed right now because he blew up his leg?

The guy that couldn't get open all season before he hurt his leg?

The guy that takes plays off, doesn't block, talks shit constantly, about his own team and coaches if you don't force-feed him the ball?

That OBJ?

Hard pass.

Not necessarily at the X. But I fully expect him to take huge step in year 3.

The Chiefs should still draft a WR early. Like Pittsburgh, the Chiefs should be drafting a WR fairly high every other year. That needs to be the model.

Yep. Dude makes plays.

Yep. Pringle needs more snaps.

I like Pringle. From the little we've seen of him, he seems to generally play well.

But there's obviously something we're not seeing, because he's still basically behind Hardman on the DC.

DOD on special teams!

I don't think so. Hardman and Watkins are nowhere near the same kind of guy.

Yep.

Pringle brings some of the Watkins things to the table, let's put him in there AND Hardman.

Reid: Not practicing today was Fenton, Watkins and Gay but they are all getting better ;)

Frustrated with Sammy or not, this offense works way better when he is healthy. His route running is superb and opens lanes for other guys if he is not the primary. He is also a good at improvising if Mahomes gets in trouble. I am predicting that Sammy, once again, will have an awesome postseason. If he wasn't hurt in the regular season and played the way he did all year in last years postseason he would be being paid 3 times as much. JMO

Fenton and Gay need to be ready. Both contribute big time

Watkins is quickly approaching Eric Berry territory.

Not even close... When Eric Berry played he was a shadow of his former self, Watkins has been very effective and suspect he will continue to be effective if he's healthy...

Reid: Schwartz won't be back this week and they will see moving forward, he is day to day. They haven't lost hope and he really wants to play but backs are fickle.

Nah, that's Schwartz.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Andy Reid said Mitchell Schwartz (back) won&#39;t play Sunday. Schwartz hasn&#39;t played since Week 6.<br><br>&quot;We&#39;re literally taking it day by day,&quot; Reid said. &quot;He physically can&#39;t do that right now. We&#39;ll see how it goes down the road. I don&#39;t think anybody has lost hope.&quot;</p>&mdash; Nate Taylor (@ByNateTaylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/ByNateTaylor/status/1349439479711412231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Dude is done.

What even happened to Schwartz? I don't specifically remember him getting injured.

The #Chiefs have signed WR Antonio Callaway to a reserve futures deal, a source tells @YahooSports.

Hmm

Its disturbing to read abuse from our fans about an injured player. Hows it his fault he gets injured? The dude helped us win a superbowl. Hopefully Sammy makes it Sunday, if he doesnt then we will just have to get on with it until hes fit.

:rolleyes:

No, they don't. They're both role-players. If they're ready, great. If they're not, we'll be fine. People need to stop overreacting.

Back injury. He's done for the year, writing is likely on the wall.

The theory is he was nursing a back injury early in the season and played through it until it became too much. Dunno how much truth there is there, but he did NOT look like himself this season when he was playing.

Obviously you haven't been lurking around here very long. And we don't even know yet exactly why Sammy didn't practice today. But "OverreactionPlanet" is always happy to make WAGs, because "CP."

Welcome to CP though.:)

Because he's a broke dick.

Didnt Watkins leave the game a few weeks ago with a calf injury or am i the only one who remembers that?

After three months if Schwartz still cannot even participate in a walkthrough practice then it is pretty obvious that short term "day to day" rest/recovery is not going to be enough to resolve his back injury.

Probably a surgical intervention will be needed this offseason.

Yeah, you’re right. I didn’t think about that lol.

Yes calf injury.

Just another injury to his fragile glass legs.

Hamstring, calf... he's never healthy.

Sammy didn't practice because of his calf, which he injured a couple of weeks ago.

So Andy or some coach actually said that Sammy didn't practice because of that calf injury today after practice?

This is all I'm getting at. Do we have an actual statement from a coach about the reason Watkins didn't practice today, or are we just guessing based on the fact that Watkins left the NOR game(?) because of a strained calf?

If we do have a statement I would really appreciate a link, please.

Watkins may stay in KC this offseason, though.

Nobody is going to offer him money, and we may be able to keep him for pennies.