{"id":639799,"date":"2026-04-30T04:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/639799\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T04:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:14:07","slug":"kc-waives-underrated-depth-rb-after-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/639799\/","title":{"rendered":"KC waives underrated depth RB after 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 29, 2026, 8:15 p.m. CT<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, April 29, news broke that the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> had decided to waive backup running back ShunDerrick Powell after the team selected former Nebraska Cornhuskers<\/a> rusher Emmett Johnson during the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

A native of Hoxie, Arkansas, Powell initially signed a reserve\/future deal with the Chiefs in early January after spending part of the 2025 season with the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>, with whom he signed as an undrafted free agent last year.<\/p>\n

Veteran Sports Producer Nick Jacobs of KSHB 41 in Kansas City was the first member of the media to report that Powell had been waived on April 29:<\/p>\n

Powell never took the field for Kansas City and was likely waived as a result of the Chiefs’ investment in Johnson, who will almost certainly make the team’s 53-man roster after training camp.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned to see how Chiefs general manager Brett Veach will approach his reinvention of Kansas City’s backfield as his team conducts its offseason training program in the coming months.<\/p>\n

Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 29, 2026, 8:15 p.m. CT On Wednesday, April 29, news broke that the Kansas City Chiefs had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[202558,64,63,593,85,232196,232197,203469,210944,203909,203146,274745,277650,203142,203149,202991,203499,240255,203139,202561],"class_list":["post-639799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-accessfree","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsnflchiefs","tag-sstsnchiefs","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagbig-ten-conference-football","tag-tagkansas-city-chiefs","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnebraska-cornhuskers","tag-tagnebraska-cornhuskers-football","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagphiladelphia-eagles","tag-tagsmg-timely","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}