The Kansas City Chiefs have made a single roster move on Saturday ahead of their AFC championship game showdown with the Cincinnati Bengals.
According to the NFL’s personnel notice for Saturday, the Chiefs have elevated WR Daurice Fountain from the practice squad via standard elevation. This is the third consecutive week that the team has chosen to elevate Fountain to the 53-man roster. The NFL’s new postseason rules allow teams to elevate players an unlimited number of times.
Fountain has played in four games between the regular season and playoffs for Kansas City. Last week, Fountain was active for the divisional-round game against Buffalo, but he didn’t get any snaps on offense. He played just 10 snaps on special teams.
Josh Gordon was released from the 53-man roster this past week, so he won’t be a healthy scratch in lieu of Fountain’s activation as he had been in each of the past two weeks. They’ll have to make another player inactive in order to make room for Fountain as a gameday active.
The other good news here is that the team didn’t make any transactions on the defensive side of the ball. Specifically, they didn’t call up someone like Devon Key with Tyrann Mathieu listed as questionable heading into this game with a concussion. The latest report from ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler suggests that Mathieu has yet to be cleared from the NFL’s concussion protocol, but the team is expecting him to be cleared in time to play on Sunday.
