Your Personnel Preference

It's been a busy week of personnel movement for the Kansas City Chiefs. Most of it is in response to injuries.

It started on Wednesday when the Chiefs made six personnel moves, the first being placing safety Eric Berry on Injured Reserve. With the loss of Berry, the Chiefs brought back safety Reshard Langford, who was released on the final day of cut downs before the regular season. Langford brings familiarity with the organization and an option other than Sabby Piscitelli to the table.

Also on Wednesday, OT Butch Lewis and FB Shane Bannon were brought back to the practice squad and OL Lucas Patterson and TE Kyle Nelson were dropped.

Now today, there's even more happenings going on with the Chiefs.

First it was announced that tight end Anthony Becht, who was released from the team before the start of the season, was rejoining the Chiefs and tight end Jake O'Connell was being released. Jake O'Connell is the latest 2009 draft pick to be released from the Chiefs (not a good draft). Look for O'Connell to be added to the practice squad; that seems like a move that would make sense from a depth standpoint.

In the meantime, Anthony Becht is a 10-year veteran with 185 career receptions, 1,511 yards and 21 touchdowns. He is a better receiving option than O'Connell and will take a lot of the pressure off of Leonard Pope. Since the Chiefs seemed determined to retain their tight end use in the passing scheme, Becht will become our best available option and will be utilized more than he has been in recent years.

The other big news coming out of Chiefs camp is that cornerback Brandon Flowers and the Chiefs agreed to a 5-year $55 million extension. I suggested this would happen awhile back, seeing how much cap room the Chiefs had left and knowing Scott Pioli's style of reaching extensions with players during the season. Look for similar contracts to Brandon Carr and Dwayne Bowe during the year, since they are without contracts after this season.