The Kansas City Chiefs are in an unfamiliar situation.
They'll be playing in Week 16 already officially eliminated from the playoffs, and they'll be doing it without Patrick Mahomes, who is out with a torn ACL.
On Saturday, the Chiefs had to make a roster move to help the QB depth chart. They've signed Chris Oladokun from the practice squad to the active roster.
Oladokun was a seventh-round pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers back in the 2022 NFL Draft. He played his college football at three different schools: South Florida, Samford and South Dakota State.
He has played in just one NFL game, that coming in 2024 with the Chiefs, when he ran once for five yards and didn't attempt a pass.
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The Chiefs had been operating with two QBs active each gameday, Mahomes and Gardner Minshew.
With Mahomes out, it's Minshew getting the start in Week 16. And before any roster moves, Minshew was the only quarterback on the active roster.
Now, Oladokun comes up to back up Minshew. If the mustachioed Minshew were to be injured, it'd be Oladokun getting a chance to prove himself in the NFL.
The Chiefs have generally kept him around on the practice squad the past couple seasons, so they must like him a bit, and now he'll don a uniform on gameday.
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