Teams represented at Odell Beckham Jr.'s private workout in Arizona today included the Panthers, Giants, Patriots, Rams, Cardinals, 49ers, Bills, Chiefs, Vikings, Browns and Ravens, per source.
Talked to a few people who attended Odell Beckham's workout. One noted how noticeably muscular Beckham looks now, likening him to a combination of Saquon Barkley and Deebo Samuel. Another said Beckham is simply a gifted athlete and that hasn't changed. Explosion was there.
Originally Posted by In58men:
How come everyone keeps saying “just send a 2nd rounder” for D-Hop?
Do we not understand he comes with a contract too?
Contracts can be modified. Veach is a wizard at that. If we had Jerry Jones, Gettleman or some other known dipstick as GM, we could rightly worry. Not worried with Veach at the helm. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mecca:
In a vacuum that is fine....but our WR position has quickly turned into being below average and it's a bland WR year in the draft.
Yep.
This WR group needs addressed with a multi-faceted approach, just like last year. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla:
People appear to be willing to hand wave the **** out of that reality. "Eh, we'll make it work."
About as much as the people waving off the reality that the WR room is almost paper thin if either Toney goes down with an injury/Skyy doesn't immediately fill JuJu's role. "Just draft and develop an instantly productive WR" even though we have no history of that. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
About as much as the people waving off the reality that the WR room is almost paper thin if either Toney goes down with an injury/Skyy doesn't immediately fill JuJu's role. "Just draft and develop an instantly productive WR" even though we have no history of that.
I think - you could make an argument that we haven't *historically* drafted and developed stud CB's either....but we did it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DenverChief:
I think - you could make an argument that we haven't *historically* drafted and developed stud CB's either....but we did it.
It's more that the Chiefs haven't put much into the position, it's all late round draft picks other than Moore and Hardman. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DenverChief:
I think - you could make an argument that we haven't *historically* drafted and developed stud CB's either....but we did it.
Hmm. I thought we did okay at CB. I mean, it's hard to draft top-notch guys when you draft in the last quarter of the round every year for ten years straight, but overall I wouldn't say KC has done poorly at CB in Andy's tenure.
And i understand we haven't really drafted with a focus on WR, ever. it's been kind of an afterthought most years, imo.
But it's also not a new thing for Andy either. He didn't draft and develop many quality WRs in PHI. A couple decent ones. And it's not like this is a great class for WRs in 2023. It's not terrible by any means, but it's not great, either. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
Hmm. I thought we did okay at CB. I mean, it's hard to draft top-notch guys when you draft in the last quarter of the round every year for ten years straight, but overall I wouldn't say KC has done poorly at CB in Andy's tenure.
And i understand we haven't really drafted with a focus on WR, ever. it's been kind of an afterthought most years, imo.
But it's also not a new thing for Andy either. He didn't draft and develop many quality WRs in PHI. A couple decent ones. And it's not like this is a great class for WRs in 2023. It's not terrible by any means, but it's not great, either.
Drafted by the Chiefs CB's since 1990. **No UDFA, trades or FA**
Dale Carter (1st 1992), Eric Warfield (7th 1998), Robert Williams (5th 1998), Pat Dennis (5th 2000), William Bartee (2nd 2000), Julian Battle (3rd 2003), Marcus Maxey (5th 2006), Brandon Flowers (2nd 2008), Brandon Carr (5th 2008), Donald Washington (4th 2009), Javier Arenas (2nd 2010), Sanders Commings (5th 2013), Phillip Gaines (3rd 2014), Marcus Peters (1st 2015), Steven Nelson (3rd 2015), Eric Murray (4th 2016), Rashad Fenton (6th 2019), L'Jarius Sneed (4th 2020), Thakarius Keyes (7th 2020), Trent McDuffie (1st 2022), Joshua Williams (4th 2022), Jaylen Watson (7th 2022).
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
Hmm. I thought we did okay at CB. I mean, it's hard to draft top-notch guys when you draft in the last quarter of the round every year for ten years straight, but overall I wouldn't say KC has done poorly at CB in Andy's tenure.
And i understand we haven't really drafted with a focus on WR, ever. it's been kind of an afterthought most years, imo.
But it's also not a new thing for Andy either. He didn't draft and develop many quality WRs in PHI. A couple decent ones. And it's not like this is a great class for WRs in 2023. It's not terrible by any means, but it's not great, either.
All I was saying is our draft track record for CB's was comparable to our track record of drafting WR's. Veach knows what he is doing and has a knack for sniffing out talent - just for S&G
Naz Worthen (3rd 1989), Robb Thomas (6th 1989), Fred Jones (4th, 1990), Tim Barnett (3rd 1991), Danan Hughes (7th 1993), Chris Penn (3rd 1994, Lake Dawson (3rd 1994), Tamarick Vanover (3rd 1995), Joe Horn (5th 1996), Kevin Lockett (7th 1997), Larry Parker (4th 1999), Sylvester Morris (1st 2000), Dante Hall (5th 2000), Snoop Minnis (3rd 2001), Sammie Parker (4th 2004), Jeff Webb (6th 2006), Dwayne Bowe (1st 2007), Kevin Robinson (6th 2008), Will Frankin (4th 2008), Quentin Lawrence (6th 2009), Jonathon Baldwin (1st 2011), Junior Hemmingway (7th 2012), Chris Conley (3rd 2015), Demarcus Robinson (4th 2015), Tyreek Hill (5th 2015), Jehu Chesson (4th 2017), Mecole Hardman (2nd 2019), Cornell Powell (5th 2021), Skyy Moore (2nd 2021) [Reply]
Willie Davis (Central Arkansas 1991)
Michael Smith (Kansas State 1992) Marc Boerigter (Hastings 2002)
LeShaun Ward (California 2003)
Richard Smith (Arkansas 2004)
Chris Horn (Rocky Mountain 2004)
Bobby Sippio (Western Kentucky 2007)
Verran Tucker (California 2010)
Jeremy Horne (Massachussets 2010)
Josh Bellamy (Louisville 2012) Albert Wilson (Georgia State 2014) Marcus Kemp (Hawaii 2017)
Gehrig Dieter (Alabama 2018)
Jody Fortson (Valdosta State 2021)
UDFA CB's
Felix Wright (Drake 1993)
Monty Grow (Florida 1994)
Clyde Johnson (Kansas State 1997)
Jason Kaiser (Culver- Stockton 1998)
Clint Finley (Nebraska 2002)
Benny Sapp (Northern Iowa 2004)
Scott Cannot (South Dakota 2004)
Michael Bragg (Texas A&M 2006)
Tyron Brackenridge (Washington State 2007)
Maurice Leggett (Valdosta State 2008)
Rickey Price (Oklahoma State 2009)
Nieko Thorpe (Auburn 2012)
Tysyn Hartman (Kansas State 2012)
Bradley McDougald (Kansas 2013) Daniel Sorenson (BYU 2014)
Charvarius Ward (Middle Tennessee State 2018)
Alex Brown (South Carolina State 2019)
DiCaprio Bootle (Nebraska 2021)
Rookie Trades:
Marcus Cooper (Rutgers 2013 - Drafted by SF 7th round) [Reply]