Chiefs DE Alex Okafor ruled out with hamstring injury
The Kansas City Chiefs are seeing some early attrition along the defensive line.
First, second-year DT Khalen Saunders was ruled out with an elbow injury. Now, they’ve lost their second defensive lineman for the night with DE Alex Okafor being ruled out with a hamstring injury. Okafor spent a chunk of the 2019 NFL season on injured reserve with a torn pec. He returned healthy at the start of training camp. Later he missed a portion of training camp with a calf injury.
He won’t finish the game leaving the Chiefs with Frank Clark, Tanoh Kpassagnon and Mike Danna as the only health ends on the roster.
DE Alex Okafor is out with a hamstring injury.
— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) September 11, 2020
Okafor had 0.5 sacks, one tackle and two quarterback hits before exiting the game with injury. He was part of the rotation early on for Kansas City and seemed to be the player having the most success getting after Deshaun Watson besides Clark and DT Chris Jones.
They’ll miss his veteran presence on the outside for the remainder of the game. With some luck, this won’t be a serious injury, rather some early season soft tissue problems after no OTA’s or minicamp. If not, we could be seeing Taco Charlton’s debut with the Chiefs in Week 2.
