KC Chiefs: Good and bad performances from depth chart players in Week 17

The KC Chiefs had a chance to see their depth chart players in action vs LA.

The Kansas City Chiefs had nothing to gain in Week 17 when the Chargers came to town and that’s why it was the right decision to rest the starters. Sure, maybe this led to the Chiefs “suffering” their first blowout loss since 2016, but there will be an asterisk in that statistic because of the situation.

Because this game didn’t matter, I didn’t go my usual route with coverage. In wins, I highlighted the star performances and with losses, I fixated on the horrible performances (which I only ended up doing the one time when KC lost to the Raiders). Yes, this was a loss, but it wasn’t a standard loss, so I’m going to take a different route for my postgame coverage.

With the backups taking the field for the regular-season finale, who impressed and who made it an easier decision to cut ties with this offseason? Here are the good and bad performances from Week 17. We’ll start with a bad player.

Bad: Armani Watts

I’ll be the first to admit that I overhyped the heck out of Armani Watts when the Chiefs took him in the fourth round in 2018. I’m willing to admit I was way off the mark with that prediction, as Watts has greatly disappointed with the Chiefs.

He looked very bad in this loss to the Chargers, whiffing on multiple tackles, including one that allowed Donald Parham to find the end zone. The Chiefs hoped that Watts would be a big part of their secondary moving forward, but this game proved he’s nothing more than a backup and even that’s not a great plan.