{"id":1005666,"date":"2026-09-20T06:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1005666\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T06:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:09:20","slug":"chiefs-elevate-2-practice-squad-players-for-sunday-night-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1005666\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs elevate 2 practice squad players for \u2018Sunday Night Football\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Kansas City currently only has four linebackers on their 53-man roster after Cooper McDonald was placed on the Reserve\/Injured list this week due a knee injury suffered in Week 1. McDonald must miss at least Kansas City\u2019s next four contests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With numbers light at the linebacker position, Cole Christiansen will be available on Sunday. Christiansen has bounced between Kansas City\u2019s active roster and practice squad since 2022. He has played in 15 regular season games with the Chiefs, but Christiansen has never taken a defensive snap with the team. The Army product was in on at least 67% of the Chiefs\u2019 special teams plays in all three of his 2025 appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Kansas City called up defensive tackle Marcus Harris for the second week in a row. Harris initially made the active roster out of this year\u2019s training camp, but he was waived the following day as the Chiefs continued tweaking the roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After signing with the practice squad, Harris was brought up for Week 1 and took five defensive snaps against the <a href=\"https:\/\/milehighreport.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Broncos<\/a>. He may be getting the call a second time as an insurance policy. Star defensive tackle Chris Jones was deemed questionable on the final injury report for Sunday\u2019s contest due to a calf ailment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Chiefs can only elevate Harris from the practice squad one more time without having to add him to the roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City currently only has four linebackers on their 53-man roster after Cooper McDonald was placed on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1005667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,922,6],"class_list":["post-1005666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-football","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117301881289431915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}