— The LIV Chiefs Kingdom (@1_ChiefsKingdom) April 25, 2020
We had Lucas Niang at #57 in the KC Draft Guide, so this is awesome valued. Played through a hip injury last year. This is definitely a guy earmarked to take over for one of the Chiefs tackles in the future. pic.twitter.com/a1P53sN9bL
New Chiefs OT/OG @Kbniang8 has some WILD college stats. He didn’t allow a single sack in 975 career pass blocking snaps. If that’s not impressive enough, he committed just 3 penalties on 1,982 career snaps.#NFLDraft | #Chiefs | #ChiefsKingdom
Originally Posted by kcclone:
A lot of athletic lineman have that same look. His hips look big which is what is needed. Chiefs aren’t running the Nebraska 1994 offense where the OL are drive blocking 75% of the time.
With that said, it can't be our plan for a 3rd round RT who opted out to be our LT this fall.
That's what I keep telling myself, but the more I read, it looks like people are coming around to that line of thinking. Not me, but I trust Bert Vatch. [Reply]
He had those same skinny legs as a college player and when the Chiefs did their pre-draft Zoom sessions or whatever.
If the coaches and scouts thought Niang's body would be a problem in the NFL, they wouldn't have drafted him in the 3rd, nor would they be openly talking about the possibility of him starting at either tackle position this next season. [Reply]
That’ll be killer if Niang ends up working out at LT. We of course still need depth there as we’re all painfully aware, don’t want Remmers having to slide over again. At least we wouldn’t feel any need to have to reach for an OT. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RealSNR:
He had those same skinny legs as a college player and when the Chiefs did their pre-draft Zoom sessions or whatever.
If the coaches and scouts thought Niang's body would be a problem in the NFL, they wouldn't have drafted him in the 3rd, nor would they be openly talking about the possibility of him starting at either tackle position this next season.
Khalil Mckenzie has massive legs, we should bring him in for a look. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RealSNR:
If Veach starts eating all of his meals out of a feed bag, his face grows an extra 6 inches in vertical length, and he develops a serious drinking problem, I’ll start getting worried
I hear ya, and THAT very well could be the difference. [Reply]
Niang will eventually be an all-pro RT. We are set at LT/LG/RT for the next 3-5 years, at least. Veach is the standard in the NFL. I hope Clark is paying him top $. [Reply]
Mitch has made $43 million in his career and the Chiefs will owe him about $4 million this season in the last year of his deal.
I think he wants to play but he knows that at this point in his career he’ll just be on 1 year deals.
He also bought a house in KC and is in the recess of completely renovating everything in it.
I think he might just be done and want to work with his brother in media, maybe some cooking stuff as well as working with Duke Manyweather to teach OL. His brother did just do a Gruden style OL draft show and it looks great. [Reply]
