— 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 htismaqe:
I think the prevalence of spread offenses and the evolution to more passing in general is what is fueling it. The CB's class is really good too. It's because college is just flat out producing more WR's and CB's when so many teams are running 5 wides and the nickel and dime defenses that counter them.
It’s also the salary cap explosion and popularity uptick that’s happened in the NFL.
A lot of the guys that 10-15 years ago would be second basemen and shortstops are becoming NFL corners. A lot of players that normally would be out fielders are choosing football and going the WR route. Same thing applies to quarterbacks.
Even Patrick Mahomes 10 years ago is probably pitching in the majors right now. He’s a prime example of an arm talent that went the NFL route. [Reply]
Originally Posted by The Franchise:
I’ve prepared myself for all of the “Fire Veach” screams that are going to come out if we don’t take an OT in the first three rounds.
I think that's highly unlikely; I mean, even if Reid likes Niang at LT, you still don't have a long term answer at RT. Or flip sides, whatever. What I mean is, you have a minimum of ONE OT spot that you don't have a longterm answer for at least.
I'm certain we'll take one in there. My gut says second round. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chris Meck:
I think that's highly unlikely; I mean, even if Reid likes Niang at LT, you still don't have a long term answer at RT. Or flip sides, whatever. What I mean is, you have a minimum of ONE OT spot that you don't have a longterm answer for at least.
I'm certain we'll take one in there. My gut says second round.
They could always just get one next year if the board doesn't play out the way they want. They do have both Long and Remmers on 1-year deals so they don't really have to address it now, although doing so would be helpful. [Reply]
If Niang is looked at as the long term fix at LT, then the best option is obviously to let the board play out and take calls to move back to the mid second to add another third unless a player falls that isn’t expected to.
The third round in this draft is going to be LOADED. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BossChief:
If Niang is looked at as the long term fix at LT, then the best option is obviously to let the board play out and take calls to move back to the mid second to add another third unless a player falls that isn’t expected to.
The third round in this draft is going to be LOADED.
That should be the plan even if Niang isn't the long term fix at LT.
Reaching for players out of panic causes issues. It's precisely how we ended up with Breeland Speaks. [Reply]
To my untrained eye, Niang appears to have more ability than Fisher, especially when Fisher was a rookie. I find it unlkely that he would be incapable of switching to LT and being effective, especially playing next to Thuney. [Reply]
Originally Posted by AdolfOliverBush:
To my untrained eye, Niang appears to have more ability than Fisher, especially when Fisher was a rookie. I find it unlkely that he would be incapable of switching to LT and being effective, especially playing next to Thuney.
If you recall correctly, Fisher has concerns about being raw and there were also concerns about the level of competition he faced in the MAC. His draft stock rose after the Senior Bowl.
By contract, Luke Joeckel was considered not only the best LT prospect in that draft, especially over a small school guy like Fisher, and one of the better LT prospects in a long, long time.
We all saw how that worked out.
There's absolutely no reason to poo poo Niang at LT. For all we know, he's a poor man's Willie Roaf and we hit the freaking lottery in the 3rd round. [Reply]
