Chiefs projected depth chart for 2020 NFL offseason

The Kansas City Chiefs will open the 2020 league year with 60 players on the 90-man offseason roster.

They’ll still look to add more players during the course of free agency, before rounding out the team during the 2020 NFL draft and undrafted free agency. General manager Brett Veach has his work cut out for him creating cap space to make some free-agent acquisitions and have the money to sign a draft class. Here are our current projections for the offseason depth chart as the roster currently stand:

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Offense (31)

Pos.	First	Second	Third	Fourth
QB	Patrick Mahomes	Chad Henne	Kyle Shurmur
RB	Damien Williams	Darwin Thompson	Darrel Williams	Marcus Marshal, Eljiah McGuire, Mike Weber
FB	John Lovett
WR	Tyreek Hill	Byron Pringle	Gehrig Dieter
WR	Sammy Watkins	Mecole Hardman	Jody Fortson	Felton Davis
TE	Travis Kelce	Deon Yelder	Nick Keizer	Alize Mack
LT	Eric Fisher	Greg Senat
LG	Martinas Rankin	Andrew Wylie
C	Austin Reiter	Nick Allegretti
RG	Laurent Duvernay-Tardif	Ryan Hunter
RT	Mitchell Schwartz	Jackson Barton

Observations:

• The Chiefs could go into the season with these three quarterbacks and be fine. I expect them to add at least one undrafted free agent for competition.
• There are a lot of names at the RB position, but Darwin Thompson is the only one of them that is under contract beyond the 2020 season. Kansas City has some work to do here.
• The receiver corp will need to find a replacement for Demarcus Robinson. That player could already be on the roster as Pringle, Dieter and Fortson all could be sensible replacements.
• Tight end looks like a really solid group as both Yelder and Keizer are well-liked among the organization. The Chiefs could be comfortable leaving this group as is.
• The offensive line is surprisingly comfortable, even with the departure of Stefen Wisniewski and Cameron Erving. Wylie and Rankin could battle for a starting spot on the interior. I also expect Allegretti to push for a starting job. Who will win the swing tackle job in 2020, though? Is that player already on the roster?

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Defense (26)

Pos.	First	Second	Third
LDE	Alex Okafor	Demone Harris	Anthony Lanier
LDT	Chris Jones	Khalen Saunders	Braxton Hoyett
RDT	Derrick Nnadi	Breeland Speaks	Devaroe Lawrence
RDE	Frank Clark	Tanoh Kpassagnon	Tim Ward
LB	Anthony Hitchens	Ben Niemann	Darius Harris
LB	Damien Wilson	Dorian O’Daniel	Emmanuel Smith
LCB	Charvarius Ward	Chris Lammons
RCB	Alex Brown
CB	Rashad Fenton
FS	Juan Thornhill	Daniel Sorensen
SS	Tyrann Mathieu	Armani Watts

Observations:

• Right now, the defensive line and linebacker group have a good amount of bodies. The question is how reliable are the third-string guys? They are basically all unknown commodities, with no playing time for the Chiefs last season. Which of them will step up? Ward and Harris got praise from Brett Veach as undrafted free agents in 2019 but spent the season on the NFI list.
• The cornerback group is painfully thin. Ward and Fenton are the only players with starting experience last season. Brown was on the 53-man roster but played special teams. I’d expect Kansas City to add players in free agency, the draft, and undrafted free agency.
• The safety group is solid for the time being and with Thornhill doing well in his recovery, they might be able to get away with not adding anyone here until undrafted free agency.

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Special teams (3)

Pos.	First	Second
P	Dustin Colquitt
K	Harrison Butker	Dustin Colquitt
KO	Harrison Butker
LS	James Winchester
H	Dustin Colquitt
PR	Tyreek Hill	Mecole Hardman
KR	Mecole Hardman	Tyreek Hill

Observations:

• This group doesn’t appear to have changed thus far. Expect that there could be some changes to the returner group following the draft.