Annnnd another playoff run, and a winning season has us drafting at the tail end of each round, except this year, we *currently* don't have a 1st round pick.
This is the 7th year in a row that we will be tracking the college players the Chiefs have publicly or privately expressed interest in leading up to the NFL Draft.
Here's how we did in 2017. We've done better in the previous years, but not so much last year, one of the many reasons I was slow to start one this year. After a few DM's, I decided to do it again as we run up to the final month.
For those who are new, the way this operates is that we collectively monitor various social media sources, blogs, articles and reports for news of the Chiefs' interest in a certain player. When posted in this thread, I will update the OP to include the player. *Please provide the link to the article, the players name, position and team.
I am going to try to link to player profiles when they exist, courtesy of draftbreakdown.com, or the NFL Draft Tracker. For some of the lesser-known guys, it may just be a random video or profile from their team website.
Wow, the links to the previous year’s visit are quite revealing.
2013: Fisher, Kelce and Bray
2014: Aaron Murray, DAT and LDT
2015: Da’Ron Brown, Akeem Hunt (acquired in 2017), Mitch Morse, Marcus Peters, Ramik Wilson, RNR and David Irving
2016: Kevin Hogan, Demarcus Robinson, Dadi Nicolas, Reggie Ragland (acquired in 2017) and Terrance Smith (UDFA).
2017: Pat Mahomes. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
Wow, the links to the previous year’s visit are quite revealing.
2013: Fisher, Kelce and Bray
2014: Aaron Murray, DAT and LDT
2015: Da’Ron Brown, Akeem Hunt (acquired in 2017), Mitch Morse, Marcus Peters, Ramik Wilson, RNR and David Irving
2016: Kevin Hogan, Demarcus Robinson, Dadi Nicolas, Reggie Ragland (acquired in 2017) and Terrance Smith (UDFA).
2017: Pat Mahomes.
Yeah, last year was kind of a dud. We didn’t gather a lot of names, but I also don’t recall many draftees talking about the Chiefs having interest prior to the draft. Usually that’s one of the first questions a reporter asks them in the pressers.
I think damn near our whole draft class will be in this list; we’ve never had this many names, I don’t think. Still 4 weeks left, too.
Originally Posted by Dante84:
Yeah, last year was kind of a dud.
What’s most surprising to me about last year’s reported visits is that they didn't meet with Kareem Hunt or Ukeme Eligwe, two guys they drafted in which additional picks or a player was involved. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
What’s most surprising to me about last year’s reported visits is that they didn't meet with Kareem Hunt or Ukeme Eligwe, two guys they drafted in which additional picks or a player was involved.
Yeah the Hunt one was surprising to me for sure [Reply]