{"id":637763,"date":"2026-04-30T03:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637763\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:43:08","slug":"chiefs-waive-backup-rb-after-picking-emmett-johnson-in-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637763\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs waive backup RB after picking Emmett Johnson in 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, April 29, news broke that the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kansas City Chiefs&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> had decided to waive backup running back ShunDerrick Powell after the team selected former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college-sports\/big-ten\/nebraska\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nebraska Cornhuskers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Nebraska Cornhuskers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Nebraska Cornhuskers<\/a> rusher Emmett Johnson during the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/philadelphia-eagles\/354\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia Eagles;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Philadelphia Eagles&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>, with whom he signed as an undrafted free agent last year.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Veteran Sports Producer Nick Jacobs of KSHB 41 in <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kansas City&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City<\/a> was the first member of the media to report that Powell had been waived on April 29:<\/p>\n<p>Powell never took the field for Kansas City and was likely waived as a result of the Chiefs&#8217; investment in Johnson, who will almost certainly make the team&#8217;s 53-man roster after training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to see how Chiefs general manager Brett Veach will approach his reinvention of Kansas City&#8217;s backfield as his team conducts its offseason training program in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2026\/04\/29\/kansas-city-chiefs-waive-shunderrick-powell-after-picking-emmett-johnson-2026-nfl-draft-offseason\/89865886007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chiefs roster: KC waives underrated depth RB after 2026 NFL Draft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chiefs roster&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Chiefs roster: KC waives underrated depth RB after 2026 NFL Draft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, April 29, news broke that the Kansas City Chiefs had decided to waive backup running back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[515,49,48,238222,228267,3311,1727,6443,514,238221,238219,1747,238220,82],"class_list":["post-637763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-2026-nfl-draft","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chukwuebuka-godrick","tag-emmett-johnson","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-transactions","tag-nick-jacobs","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-shunderrick-powell","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}