Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs have signed quarterback Shane Buechele to ease their injury crisis as they splutter towards the end of the season.
After Patrick Mahomes tore his ACL in last Sunday’s loss to Los Angeles Chargers, his backup Gardner Minshew also sustained a bad knee injury this weekend against Tennessee Titans.
While reports on Monday afternoon cooled fears that Minshew had also torn his ACL, his status prompted the Chiefs to move for Buechele and take him from the Buffalo Bills practice squad.
Buechele first joined Kansas City back in 2021 after going undrafted out of Southern Methodist University.
He was on the Chiefs roster when they beat the Philadelphia Eagles at Super Bowl LVII. But the 27-year-old has still yet to play his first game in the NFL.
The quarterback left Kansas City to join the Bills practice squad in 2023, only for a neck injury to rule him out of the entire 2024-25 season.
He missed out on the Bills roster before the start of this season but rejoined the Buffalo practice squad the following day.
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