Chiefs Make Pair of Signings During Last Week of Training Camp
The Kansas City Chiefs are in their final week of training camp for the 2023 calendar year, and a Saturday preseason outing against the Arizona Cardinals is on the horizon. Despite that, the team is busy making moves to add to the fringes of the roster as camp continues.
On Tuesday morning, the team shared that cornerback Duron Lowe and linebacker Olakunle Fatukasi have been added to the roster. In one corresponding move, cornerback Anthony Witherstone has been waived. The second move is tight end Jody Fortson going on the injured reserve list.
Lowe, who played in the preseason for the Los Angeles Rams last year, signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in January. After logging 17 total snaps in the team's first preseason outing of 2023 and picking up a defensive pass interference penalty, however, Lowe was released by Tampa Bay.
The 25-year-old is a Kansas City area native who played high school football at St. Thomas Aquinas, and he spent his college career at Butler Community College, the University of Texas-El Paso and Liberty University. Lowe is an undrafted player and has yet to log a regular-season snap in the NFL. During the pre-draft process, he measured at nearly 5-foot-10, 186 pounds and ran a 4.41-second 40-yard dash.
Fatukasi, 24, entered the league as an undrafted player as well. He's spent time with three NFL franchises: Tampa Bay, the Denver Broncos and most recently the New England Patriots. After appearing in New England's first preseason game of 2023 and recording two tackles in 38 combined (defense and special teams) snaps, he was waived in order to accommodate other signings.
Despite not being drafted, Fatukasi played in 13 games for the Buccaneers in 2022. Logging one defensive snap and 150 special teams snaps (44% of those available), he recorded six tackles — four solo and two assisted. He's listed at 6-foot-2, 240 pounds. The Rutgers product has a brother, Folorunso, who plays along the Jacksonville Jaguars' defensive line.
