The Kansas City Chiefs have gone in to former All-Pro wide receiver Josh Gordon to its practice squad and is expected to join the active squad of the team soon after.

Gordon was recently reinstated by the NFL after violations of the League’s policies on substance abuse and performance-enhancing substances.

The signing was confirmed by Gordon’s agents Eric Dounn and Matt Leist on Monday, the Associated Press reported.

Gordon later tweeted a link to the Chief’s Twitter account with the caption, “Time to get to work”.

The Chiefs have been desperate for help alongside Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce in the passing game, especially after losing Sammy Watkins to free agency. Mecole Hardman and Demarcus Robinson have been unable to take the step forward that Kansas City wanted out of its number 2 wide receiver, and Byron Pringle and Marcus Kemp had costly gaffes on Sunday.

Kemp had a pass bounce off him for an interception in a 30-24 loss to the Chargers. Pringle had a pass slip through his fingers in the closing seconds that could have given the Chiefs one last shot at the end zone.

The 30-year-old Gordon was one of the league’s dynamic players early in his career in the Cleveland Browns, where he led the league with 1,646 yards receiving during the 2013 season. But he quickly became entangled in off-the-field issues, leading to six suspensions over a span of six years, five of them for some form of substance abuse.

Gordon did not play at all in 2015 and ’16 while serving suspensions, and he struggled to regain his form while splitting the 2018 season between the Browns and the New England Patriots. He wound up splitting the 2019 season between the Patriots and the Seahawks before another suspension put his future in professional football in jeopardy again.

He was added to the Seattle roster last December when the NFL deemed him eligible to return. But one day later the league decided Gordon had broken terms of his reinstatement and he was suspended indefinitely in January.

Gordon was released by the Seahawks in March, becoming a free agent, and asked Commissioner Roger Goodell in July to be reinstated. His application was approved on Monday, allowing Gordon to sign with Kansas City.

(With AP inputs)