In part, I think it’s because Thigpen and Gray appear to be much tougher athletes that Croyle and Huard. Also, perhaps because Ingle Martin isn’t that much of an upgrade from hiking the ball to Cox or Bradley in an emergency. There’s also a balance with other positions because the active roster is a zero sum game where extra people at one position limits back-ups elsewhere. With the DBs banged up and some even playing hurt, I’m guessing it’s a calculated risk that says it’s more likely the Chiefs will need to send in a new safety or cornerback moreso than a third QB.

Hopefully the “active” status thing goes away soon and teams can dress all the people on their roster. Seems like that should be a bigger issue with the NFLPA than it is. This Sunday points to how it can even be somewhat of a safety, further-injury concern.

We have a lot of players on this team that are already injured or playing hurt that they don’t want to stick on IR because they can come back but right now they’re in a tough spot regarding the roster.

Page and Morgan are both hurt at Safety and evidently at least one of them will be out since they signed this guy.

DJ is out for sure and Donnie Edwards is in and out every week at LB

Surtain is hurt and though they are planning to play Flowers, a Hamstring can be pretty tricky and he might not make it through the game. Leggett proved he isn’t ready to play CB just yet so they signed the two new CBs.

The Chiefs are dealing with a lot of injury issues right now where they have to make sure they’re covered and have enough guys to put on the field. Doesn’t make a lot of sense to be worrying about a 3rd string QB when they’re going to be stretching it in some cases to even field viable starters at others positions.

Morgan is getting more playing time on defense than Pollard did his rookie season. When they drafted the guy they said he was primarily going to be a Special Teams player at first and thats pretty much what he’s been.

Don’t know what you’re talking about with the defensive favoritism. In the first three rounds since Herm arrived we’ve drafted 7 defensive players and 5 offensive players. Considering when Herm arrived we (thought we) had a good offense and a bad defense, that isn’t surprising. In 2008 they drafted 3 and 3 in the first three rounds.

DaJuan Morgan was not a good draft pick for us…he’s a reserve safety, we desperately needed offensive linemen and Zuttah’s been a good one so far (and was available at that pick and wasn’t a reach). I haven’t seen anything from Morgan to indicate that he was good enough for us to pass on a guy who would be starting as a rookie at a critical need position. It was a terrible selection.