{"id":465310,"date":"2025-12-22T22:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/465310\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:56:14","slug":"chiefs-poach-practice-squad-quarterback-after-gardner-minshews-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/465310\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs poach practice squad quarterback after Gardner Minshew\u2019s injury."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to a report from ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrowheadpride.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> are poaching quarterback Shane Buechele from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalorumblings.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buffalo Bills<\/a>\u2019 practice squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Under NFL rules, any player signed from another team\u2019s practice squad must spend at least three weeks on the new team\u2019s active roster, so Buechele can be expected to be part of Kansas City\u2019s roster for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This signing comes in the wake of quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his backup Gardner Minshew sustaining serious knee injuries in successive weeks. Mahomes was placed on the team\u2019s Reserve\/Injured list last week. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Chiefs\/status\/2003202567585825124?s=20\">Minshew was placed on the Reserve\/Injured list<\/a> on Monday afternoon, making room for Buechele.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The former SMU quarterback \u2014 now 27 \u2014 was an undrafted free agent who spent much of the 2021 season on the Kansas City practice squad before being activated to the roster in mid-November. He remained with the team until the final roster cutdown before the 2023 season. He\u2019s been with Buffalo since then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Buechele has yet to appear in an NFL game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a report from ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter, the Kansas City Chiefs are poaching quarterback Shane Buechele from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":465311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4161,3012,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-465310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","9":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-roster","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115765693271370206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}