Marquez Valdes-Scantling wants expanded rosters so Chiefs can keep all their receivers
Ihmir Smith-Marsette is confident he could make a positive impact on an NFL team.
Whether or not Smith-Marsette gets that opportunity with the Chiefs will be decided soon. NFL teams must reduce their rosters to 53 players on Tuesday and then finalize a 16-man practice squad.
The toughest decisions for the Chiefs’ brain trust likely will be at wide receiver. While Kadarius Toney, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Skyy Moore and Rashee Rice are among the locks to make the team, others are on the bubble.
That includes Smith-Marsette and Cornell Powell, who was drafted by the Chiefs in the fifth round of the 2021 NFL Draft.
Valdes-Scantling has an idea on how the Chiefs can keep those players on the bubble: expand the roster size.
“Nfl make the roster like 58 or something,” Valdes-Scantling wrote on X (née Twitter). “We got too many dawgs in the WR room to not be on the team.”
Alas, that’s not going to happen anytime soon, which is unfortunate for some Chiefs wide receivers who will be let go by the team in the coming hours.
Perhaps one or more of those who will be released will sign with the Chiefs’ practice squad. Valdes-Scantling certainly would like for that to happen.
This story was originally published August 28, 2023 at 10:58 AM.
