Former Samford quarterback Chris Oladokun played in an NFL regular-season game for the first time on Jan. 1, when he took five snaps for the Kansas City Chiefs.

But by that time Oladokun had won two Super Bowl rings with the Chiefs, and although Kansas City waived the quarterback on Tuesday, he’ll be back for a fourth season with the Chiefs in 2025.

Kansas City kept two quarterbacks – starter Patrick Mahomes and backup Gardner Minshew – when it reduced its preseason roster to the regular-season limit of 53 active players on Tuesday. Waived in that process, Oladokun re-signed with the Chiefs for their practice squad on Wednesday after he went unclaimed.

Since the Pittsburgh Steelers cut the seventh-round rookie during the 2022 preseason, Oladokun has spent most of the intervening tim

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