Originally Posted by KCUnited:
Feel a challenge with some big men who've been out as long as Schwartz, especially with back injuries, is keeping their mass. Some of these guys look like TEs with a couple months off.
And people honestly think LDT coming back in 2021 after more than a year off is a good thing. He already wasn't great in 2019, and after being away from football and likely not getting the training he needs right now he's probably significantly smaller and out of shape. [Reply]
This absolutely sucks, but this isn't much of a shocker to me. We've heard precious little about Schwartz and his injury, which always leads me to believe there's more going on (in a bad way) than we know. [Reply]
Originally Posted by smithandrew051:
Safe assumption that Niang is penciled in as the starter for next year if Schwartz hangs it up?
I’d like to think so but Veach said after the draft that they wanted to start Niagara at guard. Maybe this situation changes their timeline but who knows. [Reply]
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
Contract situations are somewhat workable, possible career-ending back injuries aren’t.
Except in this situation we knew that we are only going to be able to extend one of our OTs because of our cap situation. We were always going to have a question marks at one of the OT spots. The drafting of Niang helps, but with how this team is structured, we were always going to need to address the offensive line with draft capital to keep spending on that unit cheap. The surprise to me is that we have RT trouble this year. Very concerning, and not really fixable. [Reply]
I think we need to keep Remmers, develop Niang and Durant and draft a C pretty early as well as a G in the mid rounds.
Niang was drafted bc it was a deep tackle class, he fell due to injury and both of our tackles will be 30 or older next year. Fortunately this planning was right, just need Niang to be a hit.
Originally Posted by RunKC:
I think we need to keep Remmers, develop Niang and Durant and draft a C pretty early as well as a G in the mid rounds.
Niang was drafted bc it was a deep tackle class, he fell due to injury and both of our tackles will be 30 or older next year. Fortunately this planning was right, just need Niang to be a hit.
There’s no doubt that the OL needs work.
OG is as big a need as center of not bigger and probably easier to fill. [Reply]