Gaines to IR
 

Chiefs placed CB Phillip Gaines on injured reserve with an elbow injury, ending his season.
Gaines opened the year as the Chiefs' slot corner but was benched around midseason after getting roasted every week in coverage. He saw extended reps in the Week 17 finale against Denver and was injured then.

Imagine that.

He has not played well this year but less depth right now is not good...

Good

"When you condemn other posters for wishing/celebrating injuries but its Phillip Gaines"

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CP is always classy.

Gaines had a pretty nice tackle in that Denver game. Also had a nice 3rd down coverage that I thought was pass interference without question, but they didn't call it so whatever.

So we lost how many players to injury in that Denver game? Four?

The kid has had some tough breaks this year, but at his best you get that play early on against Denver where he was so far up the receivers ass that some thought he should've been flagged... yet he wasnt flagged, he was just that tight on his man

I doubt he'll ever be a pick machine, but the coverage ability is definitely there

Who's available to take his roster spot?

Mitchell Acker Peters Revis Reaser and Nelson

Doesn't feel like much of a hit

If they're just looking to bring up someone that can play CB? Will Redmond is on our practice squad right now.

His physical ability is there. I'll argue that until the day ends.

His ability to "sense" the play or have natural instincts isn't.

And not a **** was given on that day

There's a typo in the OP. IR is not the correct abbreviation for Released.

Andy, let’s not have this one hang around and play “coach”.