After re-signing with the Chiefs earlier this offseason, Tajae Sharpe has been let go. ESPN’s Field Yates reports (via Twitter) that Kansas City has released the wide receiver.
Things have gone a bit downhill for Sharpe since his rookie season in 2016. That year, the Titans fifth-round pick finished with 41 receptions for 522 receiving yards and two touchdowns. In the four years since, the receiver has been limited to only 51 receptions for 645 yards and six touchdowns.
Sharpe didn’t re-sign with Tennessee after the 2019 season, and he subsequently caught on with the Vikings. Sharpe ended up getting into four games with Minnesota, appearing on only 28 offensive snaps and catching zero passes on three targets. He was waived in December and later landed on the Chiefs practice squad, and he re-signed with the organization back in April.
Sharpe was already going to have a tough time breaking the Kansas City roster, as the team seems set atop their depth chart with Tyreek Hill, Mecole Hardman, Demarcus Robinson, and Byron Pringle. The team also used a fifth-round pick on Cornell Powell, meaning Sharpe was pretty much competing for a spot as a sixth receiver. Now, Sharpe will be looking for his third team in the matter of 12(ish) months. The receiver is still only 26-years-old, so there’s a good chance a wideout-needy team takes a chance on him.
I know the Chiefs needed to primarily focus their off-season acquisitions towards their O-Line, but I’m a bit surprised they didn’t do more to add to their WR room.
I guess the Chiefs are going the route kind of like the 49ers, where they basically only have Deebo and Aiyuk, and then a couple of question marks in their WR room. Although, they also have Kittle, Juice, and then Mostert, Wilson Jr., and Sermon to help make up for their lack of weapons at the WR position..
Similarly, the Chiefs are going into the year with Hill, Hardman, and possibly Robinson as a contributor, yet they will also have Kelce, CEH, and Jet to help out their fairly thin WR group..
Either way, I suppose you don’t really have to have too many more weapons when you have two of the fastest WRs in the game, arguably either the best or second best TE in the game, and then one of the most complete RBs going in the game today. Which, that’s not even including their main weapon, their QB, who has quickly become one of the most dangerous offensive weapons in the game today