Marcus Kemp Waived; Breeland on the 53
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bashaud Breeland is back on the Chiefs&#39; active roster. Marcus Kemp was waived. The expectation is that Kemp will rejoin the Chiefs on their practice squad.</p>&mdash; Nate Taylor (@ByNateTaylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/ByNateTaylor/status/1313586903015452672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

FIRST!!!!

****!!!!

Welcome back Breezy!!

Nice to add an additional starting caliber CB at this point in the season.

We won’t need him against the Raiders this weekend, but he should come in real handy against the Bills next Thursday.

Good deal.

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Man ****. I had big dreams for Kemp.

Suddenly our secondary is full of riches

Que the rocky “getting stronger” music

For split second I thought they re-signed Speaks

Nah he’s with the Raiders

Getting Breeland back is going to be nice. For the first time in I don't know how long we have more good corners available than bad/injured ones.

Kemp got hurt and lost his role to Byron Pringle, simple as that. Also the fact that this team is keeping Ricky Seals-Jones around even though he's yet to be active makes me wonder if they're saving packages for him till later on in the year.

I've been waiting for someone to explain the complete absence of RSJ

Your theory has some merit, but I'm not totally sold either... shouldn't they be wanting to see him in real action by now?

It's not like he's some proven commodity able to just jump in and flip the switch

I have to admit I haven’t looked at the inactive list the first quarter of the season, but I totally forgot RSJ was on the squad.

Yelder and Keizer are both getting time, but not this guy... it'd just be nice to know what's going on

I thought Kemp looked pretty limited on special teams, especially as a gunner on punts. He had that chemistry with Patrick a few preseasons ago and I think we were all hoping it would develop, but nah.

In three seasons with Arizona (2017 & 2018) and one with Cleveland (2019), he's had 60 receptions for 779 yards and 8 TD's in 8 starts.

He scored a 27 on the Wonderlic, so I wouldn't think that he's having trouble with Andy's WCO concepts but his absence is certainly strange, nonetheless.

Not a big deal, but I am a little surprised because Marcus Kemp has been playing STs.

That puts us down to 5 WRs and we seem to like to have 6 usually on the 53.

We have 6 DEs on the roster with Demone Harris inactive for every game.

We have 4 TEs with Ricky Seals-Jones inactive for every game.

I think the management of the Practice Squad shapes what we did here.

If we get a WR needing to sit out because of injury, we just bounce a WR up from the PS for that game. We have Gehrig Dieter, Maurice Ffrench, Jody Fortson, and Chad Williams all on the PS.

No injury we've been made aware of, iirc

8 scores in 8 starts for other teams

Deafening silence since he's arrived

We'll be fine with or without him, but damned if it isn't worth asking about

It all comes down to blocking and special teams with RSJ. He’s always been subpar as an in-line blocker, and doesn’t play ST’s.

Saying that, I’ve been completely underwhelmed with Keizer. He hasn’t blocked well, and looks lost in his route running. That tipped pass that wasn’t even to him, drove me crazy on Monday night.

I agree. Other than STs, we really haven't used him. Breeland is a more valuable player. As far as RSJ's role with the team, I guess as long as someone has to be inactive, it really doesn't matter.

imo hes only here to take Kelces role in the event of covid or injury.

Yea I mean his value is kinda weird,like he can't be a TE 2 because he isn't a blocker, he's a movement receiver type so if you put him out there with Kelce you are telegraphing it's probably not a run.

I wonder how long it will be before he is starting?

Fenton & Ward have been doing a great job.

It's probably the same as with Washington.

RSJ doesn't compliment Kelce, he plays the same role.

Washington doesn't compliment CEH, he plays the same role.

ASAP. Gotta get him as many game snaps as possible and get him into game shape as well.

I would think Fenton & Ward would start and Fenton might move to the slot when Breeland enters the game. It doesn't really make sense, but it recognizes Fenton and Ward's play.

I think they want Keizer to be Bell and he just hasn't been that good of a blocker (yet).

Ward
Fenton
Breeland
Mathieu
Thornhill

This secondary is suddenly a huge strength.

Fair enough, and there are plenty of other reasonable explanations being bandied about by others as well

But when we're four games in and this guy hasn't played a snap, I can only surmise that he's either a complete dummy or there's some other kind of injury/personal situation behind it

Like I said, we'll be fine either way... its just the absence of an explanation that's gotten under my skin

Our intrepid beat writers need to be asking about it