Chiefs DC Steve Spagnuolo has the perfectly unsatisfying answer to trade acquisition Josh Uche’s inactive streak

The Kansas City Chiefs looked to beef up their pass rush when they acquired defensive end Josh Uche in a trade with the New England Patriots back in October.

Unfortunately, Uche hasn’t recorded a single sack in five games with Kansas City, and has only two tackles. He has been a healthy scratch for each of the last two games, indicating that he doesn’t really fit into the Chiefs’ defensive plans moving forward.

It seemed like a good decision for K.C. to bring Uche aboard as he recorded 16.5 sacks for the Patriots over the last 2.5 seasons. Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo had this to say when asked why Uche hasn’t been active each of the past two weeks:

“There’s only so many hats on game day,” Spagnuolo said. “But, I did talk to Josh the other day. I mean, we’d like to try to find a way to amp him up. [Defensive line coach] Joe Cullen is evaluating that every week, and there’s a couple guys there that could [contribute]. Malik [Herring] has played good football for us, so somewhere down the road here, maybe you see one of those guys. Hopefully nobody gets hurt, because usually that changes everything with injuries. But, that’s probably going to be a week-to-week thing there.”