The Kansas City Chiefs won’t be practicing until Wednesday, but head coach Andy Reid came in on Monday to speak with the media briefly. During Reid’s press conference he provided an injury update. He spoke on a new addition to the injury report first.
“Really the only injuries we have, well, we have a couple,” Reid began. “You know a couple of them and they’re making progress. Austin Reiter has a little bit of a sore knee, he’s working through that. You know we’ll just see how that goes for tomorrow.”
Reiter’s injury is new, but it doesn’t sound too serious compared to some of the other injuries that the Chiefs are dealing with. If Reiter couldn’t play in Week 2, replacing him would be veteran Daniel Kilgore, according to the Chiefs’ Week 1 depth chart. Kilgore was a late addition in training camp and hasn’t had much practice with the team. If he had to play it could limit some things the Chiefs are able to do on offense, thankfully they’ll likely have some repetitions to get him coached up and practicing with Patrick Mahome this week.
Reid also had an update on CB Charvarius Ward, who left Thursday’s game with a hand injury. NFL Network later reported that Ward would have surgery on his hand, but would have a chance to play. Andy Reid wouldn’t commit to Ward missing any time or playing in Week 2.
“We’ll see how it goes,” Reid said. “He had some work done on it and we’ll just see where he’s at by game time. We’ll see — we’ve just got to see how it feels.”
This one could go either way, it all just depends on how the injury heals and how Ward feels heading into the game. I wouldn’t expect him to practice much this week and if he does it’ll be in a limited capacity, with the chance of a full practice later in the week.
Reid didn’t provide any updates on Khalen Saunders who suffered a dislocated elbow and Alex Okafor who tweaked his hamstring in Thursday’s win over the Texans. You can monitor the injury status of Reiter, Ward, Saunders and Okafor right here on Chiefs Wire with our daily injury reports beginning Wednesday this week.
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