One of the seemingly more bizarre transactions that has taken place around the NFL since the regular season began was the Kansas City Chiefs’ released of rookie third-round cornerback KeiVarae Russell in what the team later described as a “football decision”.
That the Notre Dame product was claimed by the Cincinnati Bengals off waivers, whose waiver claim is just one ahead of the Pittsburgh Steelers’—and which netted them William Jackson III in the first round rather than Artie Burns—makes it all the more relevant to our interests here.