Kansas City Chiefs re-sign practice squad TE Gerrit Prince to 90-man offseason roster
The Kansas City Chiefs are bringing back a tight end who spent the 2024 NFL season on the team's practice squad. According to the league personnel notice for Wednesday, the Chiefs have re-signed TE Gerrit Prince. A Kansas native and Shawnee Mission Northwest Alum, Prince attended the Chiefs' local pro day in 2022. He went undrafted […]
The Kansas City Chiefs are bringing back a tight end who spent the 2024 NFL season on the team's practice squad.
According to the league personnel notice for Wednesday, the Chiefs have re-signed TE Gerrit Prince. A Kansas native and Shawnee Mission Northwest Alum, Prince attended the Chiefs' local pro day in 2022. He went undrafted out of UAB in 2022 and spent the entire 2022 NFL season on the Jacksonville Jaguars practice squad.
After being cut from Doug Pederson's Jags in August of 2023, the Chiefs quickly scooped him up and signed him to the team's practice squad. The 6-foot-5 and 240-pound tight end, spent most of the year on the practice squad until he got hurt.
The team brought back LB Cole Christiansen from the practice squad injured list and eventually elevated him to the 53-man roster. Prince was sent to the practice squad injured list in a corresponding move. That's where he finished the season for Kansas City.
We've mentioned that the tight end room is an aging group for Kansas City, which is one of the primary reasons the Chiefs are looking at the position group in the 2024 NFL draft. Continuing to develop a player like Prince only strengthens that position group for the future.
The 26-year-old tight end boasts some versatility as a pass-catcher and a blocker. He joins a 2024 tight end room with only Travis Kelce, Noah Gray, and Izaiah Gathings under contract.
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