Chiefs Injury Report For Broncos Game Has A Couple Of Players

by Joel Thorman on Dec 28, 2011 3:54 PM CST

The Kansas City Chiefs had two players on the injury report for Wednesday -- S Jon McGraw and RB Jackie Battle.

McGraw has been absent the past few weeks due to an ankle sprain. In hindsight, perhaps McGraw should have landed on injured reserve a few weeks ago when he suffered the injury (if he doesn't play this weekend). He was limited on Wednesday.

And Battle of course didn't practice with a foot injury. He's in a walking boot and his chances of playing on Sunday don't sound great. Some combination of Thomas Jones, Dexter McCluster and Le'Ron McClain could handle the carries if Battle is unavailable.

C Casey Wiegmann wasn't on the list after making an appearance last week.

I keep saying I want to do a quick study looking at how many players the Chiefs listed on the injury report each week versus the opponents'. It's not even close in many cases. (Sounds like an offseason project.)

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Is there something to keep teams from putting a bunch of minor-ly injured players on the IR in the last couple of weeks?

Some kind of rule, or standard contract clause or something?

When you gotta go in the lion's den, you don't go quiet. You go in loud, kick the door down and say WHERE IS THE SONUVABITCH. -B. Billick

by Brsrkr on Dec 28, 2011 4:02 PM CST reply actions

Well we have several on the IR

it’s either one extreme or the other

by Ren on Dec 28, 2011 4:33 PM CST up reply actions

The more guys on IR

the more guys getting game checks. That could stop teams from abusing it too much.

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by Tarkus on Dec 28, 2011 4:36 PM CST up reply actions

You mean active roster checks as opposed to PS checks?

I suppose so. I wouldn’t think it would cost that much to move a guy from the PS to the active roster for a couple of weeks.

When you gotta go in the lion's den, you don't go quiet. You go in loud, kick the door down and say WHERE IS THE SONUVABITCH. -B. Billick

by Brsrkr on Dec 28, 2011 4:40 PM CST up reply actions

Yeah, that's what I meant.

And yeah, the last week or two it probably wouldn’t be that big of a deal. There may be other considerations, such as PS eligibility, I’m not sure.

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by Tarkus on Dec 28, 2011 4:51 PM CST up reply actions

draft

Where are we gonna be? Somewhere around 6-9th? I say dump Casell’s contract, pay Kyle, draft either a QB to stand behind Orton for 2 maybe 3 years (ala Rivers & Rodgers) Don’t look high in the draft for RB’s , there are too many GOOD RB’s that come available in the late ropunds (if not undrafted (foster, Holmes) Perhapse another Gonzalez type TE, another Jarrod Allen DE, and probably a new WR because Bowe’s contract ought to be coming up…and he is inconsistant. The Killer B’s Bowe, Breaston and Baldwin make a nice catch phrase, but we need RELIABILITY…and since Waters and Gonzalez left, THAT is what has been missing and may be Bowe’s inconsistancy issue, a lack of QB protection to give him time to get open and make the play. Let’s see if we can get Pioli to work some magic. It would be nice to get the team back to the glory days of 90’s…just with a few playoff winsmaybe in 7 years we will have it all together so we can win the Superbowl on our 50th anniversary of our OTHER win!

by Four Horseman on Dec 28, 2011 8:21 PM CST reply actions