KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Kansas City Chiefs began working in earnest Monday for their season opener at Jacksonville while also trying to work seven new players into the fold.

The Chiefs were awarded them off the waiver wire Sunday, while also cutting loose six more as they continue to churn the bottom of the roster. Because they had the No. 1 selection in the NFL draft, the Chiefs also had the top priority in claiming players released by other teams.

The series of moves they made Sunday resulted in a 53-man roster with 30 newcomers heading into Sunday’s opener against the Jaguars. That includes all three quarterbacks and all the tight ends.

“If there’s a time to do it,” GM John Dorsey said of the overhaul, “the time is now.”

There will be a change in the broadcast booth for Junction City Blue Jay football on KJCK AM, The Talk of JC this season.

Longtime Blue Jay football color commentator Ron Hill has chosen to step down from that job. He will be succeeded by Brian Field.

Field is a 1989 graduate of Junction City High School, and a graduate of Kansas State University. He is a former Blue Jay football and baseball player, was a member of Ron Hill’s Blue Jay football program as a running back, linebacker, and safety, and was on the 1986 state runner-up football team.

He spent 12 years as a firefighter / paramedic and fire investigator with the Junction City Fire Department, and now serves as an insurance agent with Cardinal Insurance.

Field was elected to the Geary USD 475 Board of Education in April. He and his wife Rachael have a son, Aidan, who attends Lincoln Elementary School.

Field is president of the Junction City Junior Baseball Association, Treasurer of the Junior Jays, and has coached youth football and baseball at different levels over the last 17 years.  He served as color commentator for the Junction City Brigade baseball broadcasts on The Talk of JC this past summer.