{"id":837437,"date":"2026-09-05T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/837437\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:40:18","slug":"chiefs-sign-international-tight-end-release-3-from-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/837437\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs sign international tight end, release 3 from IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Friday\u2019s official NFL transactions saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/arrowheadpride.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> host 10 players for tryouts and sign tight end Thomas Odukoya to the practice squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Odukoya was born in Amsterdam but played American football at two junior colleges before landing at Eastern Michigan for four seasons. He joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/musiccitymiracles.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee Titans<\/a> in 2022 as an International Pathway Player. He has appeared in two NFL games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mattderrick\/status\/2095991703781908770\" rel=\"nofollow\">Per Matt Derrick of Chiefs Digest<\/a>, Odukoya has signed to Kansas City\u2019s practice squad with an international player exemption, allowing the Chiefs to keep a 17th player on the unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Chiefs have kept tackle Chu Godrick as an exempted international player for the past three seasons. However, after appearing in four games last season, Godrick was claimed off waivers by the <a href=\"https:\/\/thephinsider.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On Friday, the Chiefs reached injury settlements with three players who were waived\/injured during Sunday\u2019s final roster cuts. Quarterback Chris Oladokun, guard CJ Hanson and running back EJ Smith have all been waived from Kansas City\u2019s Reserve\/Injured (IR) list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Players with less than four accrued seasons who are cut while injured revert to a team\u2019s IR if unclaimed on waivers. An injury settlement has the player and team negotiate an estimated recovery timeframe and pay a prorated portion of base salary to cover the expected missed weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The covered timeline rarely becomes public. After the settlement expires, Oladokun, Hanson and Smith will be free to join the active roster or practice squad of any of the NFL\u2019s other 31 teams. A return to Kansas City will not be possible for an additional three weeks after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday\u2019s official NFL transactions saw the Kansas City Chiefs host 10 players for tryouts and sign tight end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[15977,349,99],"class_list":["post-837437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837437","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=837437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}