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Average Age of the Chiefs Roster: 25

Including all seventy players currently on the Kansas City Chiefs' active roster (No UDFAs), the average age is just a tad above 25-years old. The average number of years experience is right under 3.5

If you don't count our twelve rookies that we just drafted, the average age only jumps to 26-years old.

Forty-six Chiefs have three years or less experience. Only fourteen have more than five years experience.

Of the seventy players on the roster, only nine were here before Herm Edwards started in 2006.

Of the thirty-eight players drafted by former Chiefs' head coach Dick Vermeil between 2001 and 2005, only four of those players remain Chiefs today.

(As a side note, like most of the NFL, nearly half of the current Chiefs hail from either California, Florida or Texas.)

And for a little perspective on the incredible divergence this franchise has taken from previous years, here is the average roster age for previous seasons:

2007: 27.3
2006: 27.4
2005: 28.1
2004: 27.3
2003: 27.6
2002: 27.9
2001: 27.5
2000: 27.7
1999: 27.9
1998: 27.6
1997: 28.2
1996: 28.2
1995: 27.7
1994: 26.7

To be fair, these numbers are averaged from the end of season roster. But like I said above, even if you take out our rookies this year, our average age is still only a tad above 25-years old. I had to go back fifteen years to 1994 to find an average roster age below 27.

I don't have any major point here other than to bring up more evidence of the dramatic transformation of our football team. The Chiefs are doing what people have been saying they should have done for years - throw off the shackles that mediocrity in the NFL will put on you and start from the ground up.

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Statistically Significant too!

Even if “only a tad above 25-years old” is taken as 25.9, the occurance has A T-statistic over 4! Incredably significant!
/huge stats nerd

by HIV 2 Elway on May 2, 2008 12:06 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Ha

It was 25.33 actually.

by Chris Thorman on May 2, 2008 12:15 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

And I thought I was a nerd

for using ‘triumvirate’ on a Chiefs blog

by PVChiefsfan on May 2, 2008 12:15 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Classical humanties major here

You want that in Latin or Greek?

by Chris Thorman on May 2, 2008 12:16 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Really?

That’s crazy…me too (in addition to Biology, Philosophy, and Religion)

by PVChiefsfan on May 2, 2008 12:27 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

And that's in addition

to Political Science. Otherwise known as, should have watched the history channel instead of going to class.

by Chris Thorman on May 2, 2008 12:37 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Where did you go?

and why Classics? (besides the fact that the Romans and Greeks were cool :) )

by PVChiefsfan on May 2, 2008 12:38 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Chiefs vs. Colts

My understanding is that the Colts are/were the youngest team in the league. With all of the Chiefs off-season maneuvering, how do the two teams now compare in age?

by arcticmango on May 2, 2008 12:52 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Apologies to Paul Hardcastle

In 2008 the Kansas City Chiefs seemed like just another NFL team,
but it wasn’t.
It was different in many ways, as so were those that did the playing.
In 2007 the average age of the Chiefs player was 27…
In 2008 he was 25.
In inininininin 2008 he was 25.

Blame my wife!

by sir eccles on May 2, 2008 12:54 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

To be even more fair about this

Some of these guys are turning 22, 23, 24 throughout the season so the average age will go up.

Still a young, young team though.

by Chris Thorman on May 2, 2008 4:12 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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