Chiefs Promote QB Casey Printers to 53-Man Roster, Move Svitek to IR

Oct 28, 2006, 3:00:01 PM

Chiefs President Carl Peterson announced on Saturday that the club had agreed to terms of a three-year contract with QB Casey Printers. To make room for Printers on the 53-man roster, the club placed T Will Svitek on Injured Reserve. Printers spent the first seven weeks of the 2006 season on Kansas City’s practice squad.

Printers (6-2, 222) joined the Chiefs in 2006 after playing three seasons in the Canadian Football League with the British Columbia Lions, appearing in 45 games. He completed 457 of 712 passes for 6,763 yards with 45 touchdowns and 16 interceptions to go with 122 rushes for 849 yards (7.0 avg.) and 10 TDs. The DeSoto, Texas native was the named the CFL Most Outstanding Player in 2004 when he connected on 325 of 494 passes for 5,088 yards with a league-high 35 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He added 82 carries for 469 yards (5.7 avg.) with nine touchdowns.

The Florida A&M product completed 123 of 218 passes for 1,517 yards with 12 touchdowns and five interceptions as a senior. Printers spent his first collegiate three seasons at TCU and ranks third on the Horned Frogs career passing yards list with 4,621 yards to go with 37 TDs. He was named the Freshman of the Year by The Dallas Morning News after earning MVP honors in the Mobile Bowl game and completing 86 of 150 passes for 1,213 yards with eight touchdowns.

Svitek (6-6, 300) originally joined the Chiefs as the first of the club’s two sixth-round selections (187th overall) in the 2005 NFL Draft. Svitek gained valuable experience earlier this year in the NFL Europe League. He started all 11 games at left tackle for a Frankfurt Galaxy squad that claimed a victory in World Bowl XIV vs. Amsterdam (5/27). A native of Prague, Czech Republic, Svitek played both tight end and defensive end at Stanford before switching exclusively to defense during his junior season. He prepped at Newbury Park High School in Newbury Park, California.