With free company lower than every week away, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs have tightened up the perimeters of the roster by re-signing a member of final yr’s observe squad: tight finish Gerrit Prince.
Prince was signed to a Reserve/Future contract, giving him a spot on the Chiefs’ offseason roster when the league yr begins at 3 p.m. (Arrowhead Time) on Wednesday, March 13. After stints on two NFL observe squads (the opposite being the Jacksonville Jaguars), the 26-year-old native of Shawnee, Kansas (a Kansas Metropolis suburb) shall be seeking to make an lively NFL roster for the primary time.
A graduate of Shawnee Mission Northwest Excessive Faculty, Prince performed junior school soccer at Butler Neighborhood School in El Dorado, Kansas. After flourishing as a large receiver there, Prince accepted a scholarship to play on the College of Alabama-Birmingham as a good finish.
At UAB, Prince earned honorable point out All-Convention USA in his junior yr — then nabbed second-team honors in 2021 by catching 10 touchdowns. That put him on the radars of NFL groups earlier than the 2022 NFL Draft. Following the draft, he joined the Jaguars as an undrafted free agent.
After he developed on the observe squad for a full yr, Jacksonville lower Prince simply previous to the 2023 season. He signed with Kansas Metropolis’s observe squad quickly after. Late within the common season, Prince broke a bone in his foot, sidelining him for the remainder of the 2023 season.
