The Chiefs cut tight end Kevin Foelsch and offensive guard Tremayne Anchrum Jr. on Friday, according to the NFL’s transactions report.
They were corresponding moves after the Chiefs signed tight end Geor’Quarius Spivey and offensive lineman Joey Lombard, agreements that previously were reported. Both Spivey and Lombard were tryout players at the team’s minicamp.
The Chiefs signed Foelsch, who was cut by the Texans on April 21.
Anchrum, 26, joined Houston last November, signing with the team’s practice squad. He did not appear in a game for Houston last season but returned on a futures contract.
The Rams made Anchrum a seventh-round pick in 2020, and he has appeared in 31 career games with one start. He was on the Rams’ roster in Super Bowl LIV.
Anchrum also has spent time with the Seahawks and Saints.
Foelsch signed nine days ago.
The Eagles cut him from their practice squad near the end of last season.
Foelsch played collegiately at New Haven, a Division II school, and had 16 touchdown receptions. He signed with the Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2024 and also spent time with the Jets.
The Chiefs hosted four tryout players at their mandatory minicamp, and they have signed two.
Center Joey Lombard and tight end Geor’Quarius Spivey are joining the offseason roster, Charles Goldman of AtoZ Sports reports.
Lombard was one of the 60 tryout players at the team’s rookie minicamp in May. He also tried out for the Saints at their rookie minicamp.
He started 48 games at South Dakota, playing center and left guard in his time in Vermillion. Lombard earned second-team All-America honors in 2024.
Lombard announced his signing on social media.
Spivey signed with the Chiefs in 2024 during training camp and caught one pass for 7 yards in the preseason. He did not make the roster.
He spent this spring playing in the UFL for the Houston Roughnecks and caught seven passes for 65 yards.
Offensive tackle Ricky Lee and wide receiver Tanner Knue were the other tryout players for the Chiefs this week.
With Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice in the news this week, both for his own comments about the team’s offense in 2025 and comments regarding whether he’ll be ready to go when the season starts, several have asked about the status of Rice’s unresolved criminal charges for last year’s speed racing incident in Dallas.
He has yet to be suspended by the league, despite facing (at last word) eight felony charges. That’s because the league won’t take action until the criminal case ends. The case has not ended.
It’s not clear when it will. Regardless, the league will do nothing until it does.
And while paid leave is an option, the league has already decided not to use it in Rice’s case. New evidence could change the league’s position; however, nothing has happened yet to change the status quo.
At the outset of the 2024 season, the plan was for Rice to get through the 2024 season, resolve the criminal case and take his NFL punishment in the offseason, serve any suspension to start 2025, and move on with his career. Possibly after doing enough in 2024 to merit a significant contract following the 2025 season, which will be his third in the league.
The knee injury changed everything. The delayed prosecution allows him to keep playing.
Even if the case against Rice ended today, time would be required for the league’s procedures under the Personal Conduct Policy to unfold. Up to and including a hearing before Judge Sue Robinson.
There’s a chance Rice will get through all of the 2025 season before he’s suspended. For now, the situation remains vague. And it will stay that way until his prosecution is resolved.
Until it is, Rice’s goal will be to show that he’s healthy and to continue to build upon the promise he showed in his rookie year. If he plays all of 2025 and plays well, he likely will have laid the foundation for his second contract.
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid had some positive news on the injury front as Kansas City wrapped up its offseason program on Thursday.
Reid told reporters in his press conference that both receiver Rashsee Rice and rookie offensive tackle Josh Simmons are expected to be healthy for the start of training camp in July.
“They’re both ready to go, yeah,” Reid said. “They actually got great work in in these camps here.”
Rice is recovering from a season-ending knee injury suffered early in the Chiefs’ Week 4 victory over the Chargers last year. He had started 2024 hot after finishing his rookie season strong, catching 24 passes for 288 yards with a pair of touchdowns in Kansas City’s first three games.
Simmons — the No. 32 overall pick in this year’s draft — also suffered a season-ending knee injury during his final year at Ohio State, which likely affected his draft status. But Reid noted on Thursday that Simmons has the potential to start this year.
“Listen, you can see his athletic ability,” Reid said. “You can see his want to. He’s got a great attitude. He’s approached everything the right way, plus a little bit extra. You can tell — if you just look at his rehab, you can see he had a mindset [of], ‘I’m going to get in there. It’s not going to be training camp, it’s going to be now.’ He worked his tail off to get there, so you respect that part of it. He’s done a nice job in there. He’s worked well.
“And we’ll just see what training camp does to him. It’s different when things are flying fast up there and you’ve got full contact and pads on. We’ll see how he does.”
Additionally, Reid said that tight end Jared Wiley is likely to be ready for camp after he suffered a torn ACL in practice midway through last season. A fourth-round pick in the 2024 draft, Wiley caught one pass for 7 yards in seven games. He was on the field for 94 offensive snaps.
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce told reporters at minicamp this week that it wasn’t a tough decision for him to put off retirement and come back to play in 2025.
Though Kelce is famously close with Patrick Mahomes, the quarterback said on Wednesday that he actually didn’t discuss the tight end’s playing status with him early in the offseason.
“We never talked about it,” Mahomes said, via Pete Sweeney of ArrowheadPride.com. “I think you have that in the back of your mind — I mean, for anybody that’s played a lot of football seasons, there’s always a chance. You have to put in the work in the offseason. I think everybody wants to play in the games, but putting the work in the offseason [is] where stuff gets strenuous.”
Mahomes added that he feels like Kelce was recalibrating after going through another long season. But now, Kelce is clearly all-in on trying to win another Lombardi Trophy.
“I think y’all can see it — he’s ready to go,” Mahomes said. “He’s been putting in the work this offseason, and he’s excited for another chance to make a run at it.”
In 16 games last season, Kelce caught 97 passes for 823 yards with three touchdowns. He then had 13 receptions for 175 yards with a TD in three postseason games.
