Kansas City Chiefs Place WR Justyn Ross on IL, Ending his Rookie Season

The rookie season for Justyn Ross will not occur. 

The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs introduced that the previous Clemson receiver had undergone foot surgical procedure final week, and on Monday, the group positioned Ross on the injured checklist. As a result of that transaction occurred earlier than the season started, Ross is ineligible to play in 2022. 

Chiefs head coach Andy Reid mentioned final week that Ross would take a while to heal. 

“It was bothering him,” Reid mentioned Friday in regards to the foot problem. “It wasn’t working fairly the way in which he wished it, so that they went in and re-did it. And we’re hoping this works out nicely.”

Ross signed a free-agent cope with Kansas Metropolis after he wasn’t chosen within the 2022 NFL Draft. He was coming off a bodily troublesome 2021 season with the Tigers. He injured the foot early within the season however did not have the preliminary process carried out till November. Ross sat out the ultimate three video games after which entered the NFL draft. 

Due to the foot and a congenital fusion present in his backbone that required surgical procedure in 2020, no groups took an opportunity on him within the seven-round draft. Ross signed a three-year deal value $2.5 million with $705,000 slated to return to him in 2022. 

Nonetheless, not one of the contract was totally assured. It will be attention-grabbing to see what the Chiefs do with Ross transferring ahead and when/if his wholesome professional profession can get on observe. 

Travis Etienne, one other former Tiger, suffered a Lisfranc damage in 2021 and by no means performed his rookie season for the Jacksonville Jaguars, who took Clemson’s all-time main rusher within the first spherical of the 2021 NFL Draft. 

Ross did not come into the NFL with almost as many accolades and greenback indicators hooked up to him, however he’ll look to bounce again in 2023. 

Etienne is listed at +4000 to win the AP NFL Comeback Participant of the Yr Award in 2022, based on FanDuel Sportsbook.