{"id":155804,"date":"2025-09-14T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/155804\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:39:07","slug":"chiefs-roster-cb-kevin-knowles-elevated-de-b-j-thompson-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/155804\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs Roster: CB Kevin Knowles elevated; DE B.J. Thompson released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to Saturday\u2019s NFL transactions report, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrowheadpride.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> have elevated cornerback Kevin Knowles from their practice squad for Sunday\u2019s contest against the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedinggreennation.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Knowles joined the Chiefs in April as an undrafted free agent out of Florida State. He played in all three of Kansas City\u2019s preseason games. Presumably, any action Knowles sees on Sunday would come on special teams. You may remember that he blocked an extra point attempt by former Kansas City placekicker Cairo Santos late in the team\u2019s third exhibition contest against the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windycitygridiron.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Although he was waived at the roster cut deadline last month, Knowles signed with Kansas City\u2019s practice squad the next day. He will revert to the practice squad following the game, and he can be elevated two more times without officially joining the active roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Friday, we learned that the Chiefs waived pass rusher B.J. Thompson from the team\u2019s Reserve\/NFI (non-football-illness) list with a settlement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Thompson was Kansas City\u2019s fifth-round selection in the 2023 draft. As a rookie, he suited up for the regular season finale against the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boltsfromtheblue.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> as the Chiefs rested most of their starters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Heading into his second season in 2024, however, Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrowheadpride.com\/2024\/6\/6\/24172895\/chiefs-news-practice-canceled-bj-thompson-suffers-seizure\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffered a cardiac arrest<\/a> at the team facility during a meeting before an offseason practice. He spent four days in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Thompson spent the 2024 season on the NFI list. The Chiefs waived him in May as undrafted free agents were added, but he reverted to NFI after going unclaimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Saturday\u2019s NFL transactions report, the Kansas City Chiefs have elevated cornerback Kevin Knowles from their practice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[15977,9374,349,99],"class_list":["post-155804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-roster","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}