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The Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> brought in some help at quarterback this offseason as Patrick Mahomes was rehabbing a torn ACL and his ability to start the season was unclear.<\/p>\n With Mahomes now on track to play for the team in Week 1, the Chiefs are projected to part ways with the former practice-squad quarterback who replaced him to end last season. Veteran Chris Oladokun is expected to fall below the cut line, with the Chiefs instead leaning on a trusted veteran and a rookie developmental project to round out their quarterback room.<\/p>\n End of the Line for Chris Oladokun?<\/p>\n SI.com\u2019s Jordan Foote<\/a>\u00a0broke down the roster bubble candidates after the first four days of training camp, predicting that Oladokun would fall on the wrong side. The Chiefs brought in veteran Justin Fields as a backup and potential replacement if Mahomes was not ready to go, which could squeeze out Oladokun.<\/p>\n \u201cMahomes, like he has multiple times in the past, appears to be ahead of schedule following an injury,\u201d the report noted. \u201cRegardless of whether he\u2019ll be 100% for Week 1, which most do expect, he\u2019ll avoid going on the physically unable to perform list barring any setbacks. Fields, traded for during the offseason, backs him up.\u201d<\/p>\n Foote predicted that the Chiefs would choose to keep rookie Garrett Nussmeier, who may not make it through to waivers.<\/p>\n \u201cNussmeier may have been the \u2018last in\u2019 for us in this exercise,\u201d Foote wrote. \u201cAssuming everything tracks regarding medicals for the 2026 seventh-round pick, it\u2019s hard to envision another team not potentially being intrigued enough to claim him on waivers. The risk of losing him could keep Kansas City from cutting him.\u201d<\/p>\n Oladokun filled in for the Chiefs to conclude last season, after both Mahomes and backup Gardner Minshew went down with season-ending injuries.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tNathan Dougherty<\/a> is a sports reporter covering the NFL for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions and Miami Dolphins. Previously he wrote for the Rochester Business Journal and served as the assistant editor of athletic trade magazines Coaching Management, Athletic Management and Training & Conditioning. He is based out of Rochester, New York, and loves everything football. More about Nathan Dougherty<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Chris Oladokun. The Kansas City Chiefs brought in some help at quarterback this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,2438,2437,6],"class_list":["post-958602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-chiefs","tag-football","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascitychiefs","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117003159414004257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958602","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=958602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}