Chiefs WR Makes Viral Appeal to NFL Ahead of Cutdown

[DenverChief]

Nfl make the roster like 58 or something. We got too many dawgs in the WR room to not be on the team.

— Marquez V-S (@MVS__11) August 27, 2023

The 53-man cutdown is one of the most difficult times of the year around the NFL. 32 organizations have to inform 37 players that they are being released onto waivers. That means approximately 1,184 people are going to lose their jobs over the next two days

Sure, some will be offered a position on a practice squad or another NFL roster but overall, many will be out of work. It’s obviously no laughing matter, but Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling did make a hilarious appeal to the league office, nonetheless.

“Nfl make the roster like 58 or something,” he requested on X (formerly Twitter). “We got too many dawgs in the WR room to not be on the team.”The current wide receiver unit includes the following players: Valdes-Scantling, Skyy Moore, Kadarius Toney, Richie James, Justin Watson, Rashee Rice, Justyn Ross, Ihmir Smith-Marsette, Nikko Remigio, Cornell Powell, Ty Scott, Ty Fryfogle and Juwan Green. This viral post from MVS already has over 3,000 likes.

Chiefs WR Corps Has Developed Nicely This Summer

Throughout the offseason, many were worried about the lack of star power inside the Chiefs WR corps. That led to constant speculation on DeAndre Hopkins, among others.

In the end, this position group proved to be one of the deepest on the roster over the course of training camp and the preseason — and MVS is letting the NFL community know.At one point, the Chiefs had nine or 10 options at wide receiver that felt legitimate. Then, due to injuries, undrafted talents Nikko Remigio and Kekoa Crawford dropped out of the running.

Despite that, Kansas City still has seven or eight really strong candidates to make the roster, with Ross and Smith-Marsette on the bubble behind the starters (MVS, Moore, Toney), Rice, James and Watson. Smith-Marsette was the latest to make a strong roster push, torching the Cleveland Browns for 101 receiving yards and a touchdown.

After the game, he even let the rest of the league know what type of player he is with a bold statement on his breakout summer.With Patrick Mahomes II throwing the football and a sturdy offensive line blocking for him, this no longer feels like a weakness for KC. As Valdes-Scantling put it, the WR unit has developed into a room full of “dawgs.”

https://heavy.com/sports/kansas-city...g-roster-cuts/

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Generally, I think the 53 man roster is perfect and keeps things competitive and more talent laden team to team. A lot of the bottom of 53 man rosters (not our team) is nothing more than roster fodder. The league has been diluted enough with expansion, don't want to dilute it even more.

The one reason I might be willing to hear an argument advocating for expanding from 53 to 55 is the 17th game that was added by the owners and eventually the 18th game (we know it's coming) that will be added. That creates more potential injury situations due to a longer season and I can see why teams might want to carry an extra couple players on their active roster. They also need to increase the game day active roster once if/when this 18th game is added to the schedule.

[DenverChief]

Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin

Generally, I think the 53 man roster is perfect and keeps things competitive and more talent laden team to team. A lot of the bottom of 53 man rosters (not our team) is nothing more than roster fodder. The league has been diluted enough with expansion, don't want to dilute it even more.

The one reason I might be willing to hear an argument advocating for expanding from 53 to 55 is the 17th game that was added by the owners and eventually the 18th game (we know it's coming) that will be added. That creates more potential injury situations due to a longer season and I can see why teams might want to carry an extra couple players on their active roster. They also need to increase the game day active roster once if/when this 18th game is added to the schedule.

What if we keep it 53 but don’t count the specialists against the roster? Kicker/Punter and Long Snapper.

[Abba-Dabba]

I'm on board with what MVS is saying. 58 sounds like a good number. Although I think the argument could be made for 57 right now.

On the PS you can designate 4 players per week to be protected from being signed to other teams. I would propose to remove that weekly designation process for teams and just incorporate those 4 spots into the active roster.

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Originally Posted by DenverChief

What if we keep it 53 but don’t count the specialists against the roster? Kicker/Punter and Long Snapper.

That could potentially work, but then you have the situation with the salary cap. Do you have a separate "specialist salary cap"? Is there a set amount that can be used towards THAT salary cap or can you just pay them whatever you want? A lot of potential issues there and obviously all those things would need to be negotiated into the next CBA. Which may be possible long term, but a more immediate fix (since that 18th game is likely coming before a new CBA) is just to expand the rosters to 55.

[Gravedigger]

I do think expanding wouldn't hurt the game much to include key positions, but eventually when does it stop and you say "Oh we need that ninth WR for our KR backup role, he's a dawg!!!" Everyone is working with the same deck, gotta make it work and hope the injury bug doesn't come around.

[DenverChief]

Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin

That could potentially work, but then you have the situation with the salary cap. Do you have a separate "specialist salary cap"? Is there a set amount that can be used towards THAT salary cap or can you just pay them whatever you want? A lot of potential issues there and obviously all those things would need to be negotiated into the next CBA. Which may be possible long term, but a more immediate fix (since that 18th game is likely coming before a new CBA) is just to expand the rosters to 55.

We could just say the specialists don’t count against the cap. I can’t imagine even the most talented kicker/punter would make anywhere near a what a star at any other position would make.

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Originally Posted by DenverChief

We could just say the specialists don’t count against the cap. I can’t imagine even the most talented kicker/punter would make anywhere near a what a star at any other position would make.

But then you would just create a bidding war where the teams with the most money (cash) could just 'buy' all the best specialists every year and NFL owners without excessive family wealth outside of football would just be stuck with garbage specialists. That's not really fair.

The thing that makes the NFL great is the salary cap and ALL teams ability to compete within the same parameters. If we move outside of that at all, then you will have other players (at different positions) and agents advocating for 'their' guys to be exempt from the cap.

It just opens up a Pandora's Box that you probably don't want to open. Would potentially ruin the NFL as we know it currently.

[redfan]

A correct viral appeal to the NFL.

[Hoover]

Originally Posted by Titty Meat

Crying about something online is on brand for today's society

I have no problem with MVS fighting for his guys, but its all these little social media and chiefs sites that use it as content to get clicks that I find annoying.