{"id":988948,"date":"2026-09-01T09:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/988948\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T09:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:57:19","slug":"chiefs-roster-moves-kc-signs-exciting-fullback-to-its-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/988948\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs roster moves: KC signs exciting fullback to its practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 31, 2026, 7:55 p.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a data-autotag=\"e91367c2-d7b8-4bec-9359-95947acd6b0e\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> signed veteran fullback Ben VanSumeren to their practice squad on August 31 after he was waived by the <a data-autotag=\"1082767b-7fb4-4f44-b217-cdba2c3895e9\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> at the conclusion of the 2026 NFL preseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A native of Bay City, Michigan, VanSumeren rose to prominence in the college ranks with the <a data-autotag=\"7486d128-75f4-45be-b2b5-4b606695e640\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college-sports\/big-ten\/michigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Michigan Wolverines<\/a> and Michigan State Spartans and began his career in professional football as an undrafted free agent in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After spending three seasons with the <a data-autotag=\"c1b3a094-e294-4a77-b1b2-dbdbd5bfa2c5\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/philadelphia-eagles\/354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> from 2023 to 2025. VanSumeren signed with the Bills on April 29, 2026, before his unceremonious departure this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">NFL insider Jordan Schultz broke the news of VanSumeren&#8217;s acquisition by Kansas City in a post to his official Twitter account:<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While it remains to be seen if VanSumeren will force himself onto the Chiefs&#8217; 53-man roster in the regular season, head coach Andy Reid has historically been fond of fullbacks, so fans shouldn&#8217;t be surprised if they see Kansas City feature the ex-Bill at some point in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Your fantasy edge starts here <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (fantasy)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/fantasy.usatoday.com\/\">Sync your league for custom roster advice, projections, and tools to win your matchups every week.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 31, 2026, 7:55 p.m. CT The Kansas City Chiefs signed veteran fullback Ben VanSumeren to their practice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":988949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[95878,346,7,118,110,2438,2437,6,119552,96828,96829,95882,101889,95930,96033,96540,98267,95896,95888,95895,95899,96191,96071,95883,95881],"class_list":["post-988948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-accessfree","tag-chiefs","tag-football","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascitychiefs","tag-nfl","tag-sourcechiefs-wire","tag-sstssportsnflchiefs","tag-sstsnchiefs","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagben-vansumeren","tag-tagbig-ten-conference-football","tag-tagbuffalo-bills","tag-tagkansas-city-chiefs","tag-tagmichigan-wolverines","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagphiladelphia-eagles","tag-tagsmg-timely","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988948","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=988948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/988949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}