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Tank Tyler

​The Chiefs have traded defensive lineman and sleep apnea sufferer Tank Tyler for a fifth-round pick.

Tyler's departure brings to 25 the number of players who suited up for final game of the 2008 season but would get turned away by security if they showed up Arrowhead today.

The dizzying number of trades and releases reflect a lack of regard for the talent evaluation skills of the former regime, headed by Carl Peterson and Herm Edwards. Seemingly every week, the new guys, G.M. Scott Pioli and head coach Todd Haley, eject a player from a roster that Edwards laughably declared "85 percent" complete before he coached what turned out to be his final game in Kansas City.

Here's a breakdown of the departed:

Traded players
Tyler Thigpen (Miami)
Tony Gonzalez (Atlanta)
Tyler (Carolina)

Cut players who are on another team's roster
Alfonso Boone (San Diego)
Bernard Pollard (Houston)
Andrew Carnahan* (New York Giants)
Damion McIntosh (Seattle)
Jason Babin (Philadelphia)
Turk McBride ** (Detroit)

Cut players who may have called their cousin Mike to see if his roofing crew needed an extra man
Quinn Gray
Connor Barth
Kevin Robinson
Patrick Surtain
Ricardo Colclough
David Macklin
Oliver Celestin
Michael Merritt
Rocky Boiman
Curtis Gatewood
Pat Thomas
Tav Washington
Derek Lokey
Adrian Jones
Herb Taylor
Jeff Webb
Will Franklin

* Carnahan is on injured reserve. Jackie Battle, Thomas Gafford, Weston Dacus and Devard Darling are 2008 players who are currently on the Chiefs' injured-reserve list.

** McBride, a former second-round draft pick, was injured and not on the Chiefs' 53-man roster for the final game of the 2008 season.