— 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
I hope he checked with Chiefs fans to see if it was okay that he protested and that he checked off all the protocol to make sure it was the right kind of protest! [Reply]
Originally Posted by Dante84:
Welp - Niang is taking a medical redshirt. Hopefully dude spends a year getting stronger, learning, and comes into '21 as a beast.
If he is truly a replacement for a starting OT spot, then pushing his future extension a year isnt a bad thing. Total unknown though, obviously.
I wonder if he'll get viewed as a Breeland Speaks type for opting out.
Long-term it's probably a good thing. It puts him on a cleaner timeline for potentially replacing Fisher or Schwartz if we can't re-sign one of them. It also gives him another year to get healthy from the labrum issue.
Originally Posted by KChiefs1:
He’s a loser & quitter. I’d cut his ass next year.
Originally Posted by kcclone:
Him abandoning his team is a big red flag.
Both of you are beyond fucking stupid. Niang had a very serious injury this year and wouldn't have even been ready to practice until late this year.
Him opting out was the best possible scenario for the Chiefs because he not only is allowed to heal without any pressure, the Chiefs have him for 4 full years, not 3 years, as they would have had if he hadn't opted out. [Reply]
Originally Posted by OKchiefs:
Not going to completely blast the guy, but I also don't have much faith in him. More confident in Yasir Durant doing something going forward.
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
Both of you are beyond fucking stupid. Niang had a very serious injury this year and wouldn't have even been ready to practice until late this year.
Him opting out was the best possible scenario for the Chiefs because he not only is allowed to heal without any pressure, the Chiefs have him for 4 full years, not 3 years, as they would have had if he hadn't opted out.
Was going to post this. The other two opt outs were totally understandable, but this one was actually GOOD for the team. I guess people are just having emotional reactions to the Schwartz news. [Reply]