Do Chiefs have potential in backup QBs or are they just good college players?

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Aaron Murray, Tyler Bray and Kevin Hogan combined to pass for 265 touchdowns and almost 30,000 yards in college. But two of the quarterbacks were selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of recent drafts and one didn’t get picked at all. None has so much as taken a snap in a regular-season NFL game.

So what do the Chiefs have in their collection of backup quarterbacks? Do they have players with genuine potential, quarterbacks who can help the Chiefs win some games in 2016, if necessary, and eventually replace Alex Smith as the starter? Or just good collegians who can’t make the successful transition to the NFL?

The Chiefs aren’t sure, which is why they’ve got three such players competing for roster spots behind Smith. Heading into the draft, they already had Bray, signed as an undrafted rookie from Tennessee in 2013, and Murray, their fifth-round draft pick from Georgia the following year. Both have been buried on the depth chart behind Smith and Chase Daniel, who in March moved on in free agency to the Philadelphia Eagles.

The Chiefs added Hogan from Stanford …

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