The Kansas City Chiefs released their depth chart for Week 7 of the 2019 regular season. This depth chart reflects a few new changes on the roster, while last week’s depth chart didn’t reflect any of the Chiefs’ recent moves.
Generally speaking, these depth charts give you an idea of where a player is in the pecking order. They’re considered unofficial because they’re assembled by the team’s PR staff and not the coaching staff. Some things may not accurately reflect what happens on game day because of that. However, the PR staff does have access to the teams’ closed practices and wouldn’t purposely mislead with the depth chart.
Let’s take a look at this depth chart and see what we can learn.
Offense
| Pos. | First | Second | Third | Fourth |
| QB | Patrick Mahomes | Matt Moore | ||
| RB | Damien Williams | LeSean McCoy | Darwin Thompson | Darrel Williams |
| FB | Anthony Sherman | |||
| WR | Tyreek Hill | Demarcus Robinson | Byron Pringle | |
| WR | Sammy Watkins | Mecole Hardman | De’Anthony Thomas | |
| TE | Travis Kelce | Blake Bell | Deon Yelder | |
| LT | Eric Fisher | Cameron Erving | Greg Senat | |
| LG | Andrew Wylie | Martinas Rankin | ||
| C | Austin Reiter | Nick Allegretti | ||
| RG | Laurent Duvernay-Tardif | Stefen Wisniewski | ||
| RT | Mitchell Schwartz | Martinas Rankin |
Observations:
- Martinas Rankin is now listed as both the second-string left guard and right tackle. He performed quite well at LG in his debut with the Chiefs.
- Stefen Wisniewski is listed as the backup RG in place of Ryan Hunter, who is now on the practice squad. That means he’ll be spending a lot of time on the bench unless Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is injured.
- There has still been no change to the RB group despite Darrel Williams being the clear third-string RB over Darwin Thompson.
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Defense
| Pos. | First | Second | Third |
| LDE | Alex Okafor | Emmanuel Ogbah | |
| LDT | Chris Jones | Khalen Saunders | |
| RDT | Derrick Nnadi | Terrell McClain | |
| RDE | Frank Clark | Tanoh Kpassagnon | |
| LB | Anthony Hitchens | Ben Niemann | Reggie Ragland |
| LB | Damien Wilson | Darron Lee | Dorian O’Daniel |
| LCB | Charvarius Ward | Rashad Fenton | Mo Claiborne |
| RCB | Bashaud Breeland | Rashad Fenton | |
| CB | Kendall Fuller | Rashad Fenton | |
| FS | Juan Thornhill | Daniel Sorensen | |
| SS | Tyrann Mathieu | Jordan Lucas | Armani Watts |
Observations:
- Terrell McClain replaces the injured Xavier Williams at defensive tackle. He had 26 snaps in his Chiefs debut, making two tackles.
- There haven’t been any changes at the cornerback spot even though Mo Claiborne is part of a rotation with Charvarius Ward and Bashaud Breeland.
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Special teams
| 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 | De’Anthony Thomas | Tyreek Hill |
Observations:
- Tyreek Hill returned to action for the Chiefs on Sunday against the Texans. They utilized him purely on offense in his return as he took no snaps on special teams. He’s still listed as the starting punt returner, but don’t expect him to take snaps there unless the game is on the line.
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