The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers in Week 1 of the 2021 NFL preseason. It marked the first time that we’d seen this team play in a game since Super Bowl LV.
There are plenty of new faces on the roster, but there are very few roster spaces up for grabs. As a former Super Bowl squad, this roster is among the most competitive in the league and that showed in the first week of the preseason. It’s going to make things tough on Brett Veach and his staff when the final roster cuts happen on August 31st.
The first wave of the NFL’s gradual roster cuts come at 4:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday. The Chiefs and the rest of the league will need to cut their 90-man offseason rosters down to 85 players at that time.
With that in mind, we’re taking another crack at projecting the 53-man roster. This will technically be our third projection of the year, following our way-too-early projection and our pre-training camp projection.
Here’s a look at our latest projected 53-man roster for the Chiefs: