When the Kansas City Chiefs face the Washington Commanders at Arrowhead Stadium in preseason Week 2, they’ll get to face some of the starting players for the NFC East team.
Commanders HC Ron Rivera confirmed to media members that his starters will play against Kansas City this week. How long each individual starter will play is yet to be determined, except for a specific batch of starters who will be on a pitch count.
“We have talked about it,” Rivera said, via Commanders.com. “We are gonna most certainly play ’em. How far they go, it’s still up to debate. There are some guys that will be on pitch counts that once they hit that number, they’ll be done. A good example would be Chase Roullier. We have a pitch count for Chase once he hits that number, we’re taking him out and then we’ll go from there.”
Rivera comes from Chiefs HC Andy Reid’s coaching tree. As a result, he seems to run his preseasons in a similar fashion, ramping up his starters with a greater workload in preseason Week 2. You can expect that K.C. will also have their starters out there for a good portion of the snaps. Patrick Mahomes played 32 snaps in preseason Week 2 last year and the starting offensive line played more than 40. It should be a good measuring-stick game for both teams ahead of the 2022 NFL season.
