Chiefs sign free agent CB David Amerson
 

1 year deal per Terez Paylor.

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We shore up the defense this team will be god damn scary

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Amerson has a agreed to a 1-year deal worth $2.25M base with escalating incentives, I’m told.

This signing makes me amorous.

any good?

I think Tyreek got him benched against us if I remember right. He’s been good in the past.. Not a bad prove it deal

Probably 3rd best CB on the team, is my guess.

is he nice?

He also embarrassed Casey Heyward, who was pretty good otherwise. Hill tends to do that to guys!

He's uh a guy

I sure hope not! I want mean, nasty corners on this team.

From the 15-16 season... PFF’s most improved player, but I think he’s struggled since

Nah, he hasn’t been as good as Steve Nelson but it’s a good signing.

He’s way better than Gaines, Acker or Reasor.

Hopefully not a ton of it guaranteed.

Once again Veach finds a highly touted college player that another team quit on.

Unlike Ragland, Amerson has already had some success in the pros

Taking a wait and see on this one. Is he CB#2 opposite Peters? (Kendall Fuller in slot in nickel, outside in Base).

Is my dream of Kyle Fuller to the Chiefs dead?

6'2 going 205 or so, 4.44 at the combine... kinda looks like another Sean Smith roll of the dice, he checks all of the same boxes with the same questions about hip flexibility, agility and beckpedal that Smith did

I'm down as hell with this, nothing is guaranteed... but we turned an under performing Smith into a quality CB, so theres no good reason to not expect similar production here

http://www.nfl.com/draft/2013/profil...son?id=2540170

I think he’s the #4 guy behind Peters, Fuller and Nelson.

$2.25 million says backup and depth, not starter.

I REALLY like how Veach is attacking things now instead of waiting

Getting things done

I expect Hali to released next week or the week after, to give fans time to “mourn” the cutting of Derrick Johnson.

Are his dreams about Kyle Fuller dead?

It’s interesting because Fuller was really good at slot last year, and Nelson has played most at slot CB. I think Amerson played outside for the Raiders. I just wonder who will play outside opposite Peters? Amerson, Fuller, Nelson or someone not yet on the roster? Very interesting!

Sean smith wasn't a roll of the dice.

Scot McCloughan said that Fuller is equally adept at outside as he is inside, so I’d expect him outside for the first two downs.

It probably depends on matchups as to whether or not he slips inside on 3rd down.

Why not?

TO DA SHUP!!!

JMO— but I think Amerson was signed to be the outside corner in nickel packages. There’s just no way he agrees to a deal that is filled with escalators if he doesn’t believe he’s going to play a good share of snaps.

This is a great depth signing which allows Fuller to excel on 3rd down in the slot. You want Sutton to stop dropping Houston in coverage? Then fix the secondary, which Veach is doing.

Amerson was burned by Hill, but he also had a pick-six on Smith in 2015...

Excellent, that should really help. If we have Fuller able to play outside or inside, we gain a lot of flexibility in terms of depth.

Chiefs sign free agent CB David Amerson
 

The guy is garbage.

Raider fans were ecstatic when he got cut.

The only good thing about this is that we are not overly committed to him.

A “meh” signing in other words.

It was a three year contract, he was signed to start. All I'm saying is he wasn't a lotto ticket like this guy.

This, no doubt about it

Worst case scenario, he still provides an upgrade to our CB depth.

I thought dj said his restructure last year voided this year?

Amerson sucks. He's horrible. He was getting torched in every game I watched the Raiders play. My best friend (raider fan) is laughing his ass off at this. No way he's better than Nelson.

He is a second round pick who under performed early on, exactly the same as Sean Smith

Obviously thats no guarantee he will be as good for us as Smith was, but at least recognize that this was indeed a good 'roll of the dice'... we've had some luck with guys like Amerson before

Yes but the Chiefs decided not to bring him back.

He wanted to come back, even on a cheap deal but the Chiefs said they were moving on from him.

Chiefs signed CB David Amerson to a one-year, $2.25 million contract.
Amerson can earn another $3.75 million through incentives. This, of course, is not the destination the Raiders would have picked. Amerson, 26, stays in the AFC West with Kansas City, which needs a starting right cornerback across from LCB Marcus Peters with Kendall Fuller in the slot. Amerson was a 2015 revelation in Oakland after a trade from Washington, then fizzled out immediately after signing a 2016 five-year, $34 million deal. On a one-year prove-it contract with the Chiefs, Amerson will have full motivation in 2018.


Looks like the max he can get is $6 million.

Not to mention, Smith sure was a stud here... and then he went to Oakland. And looked like AIDS.

Point being, who other than Khalil Mack has been consistently good in that defense for the past several years? No one since Asomugha.

Amerson is coming here on a prove-it deal, and he gets to play in a secondary with 3 Pro Bowl/AP level players around him. If it’s my money, I’d bet on him having success.

Depth in the secondary! A wasteland last season. Not sure I like him more than Terrence Mitchell but I can appreciate the Chiefs trying to shake things up if they see potential. He’s no worse than Gaines.

He's better than Gaines, but he still sucks.

Jack Dios Mio, and Ken Norton Jr could **** up a cup of coffee

If Amerson has any talent, Al Harris and Emmitt Thomas will find it

So this is interesting. Apparently Amerson missed the last 9 games last season. Team doctors were shooting up his shoulder at half time of the first Chiefs game when he complained about his foot being injured. This was the same game that Tyreek burned him, of course. Not that the foot injury would have mattered, but the point is he wasn’t healthy.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2...-david-amerson

Peters, Fuller, Amerson, Nelson, Mitchell,
Out: Revis, Acker, and likely Gaines

Yeah, we are better in the secondary already.

I think Parker will get cut too. They need some range and speed at safety along with willing tacklers. I think McQuay sticks as cheap depth along with Terrell, but I expect a high pick investment in safety. Murray and Sorenson were not good last season.

From a Raiders forum...

And one perk:

Amerson does not count against the compensatory pick formula as he was released by Oakland.

Watch Veach do the same with Wilkerson out of New York.... :)

If we could sign Mo and draft Tim Settle, our DL could be bonkers.

He was very good before he got hurt last year.

https://www.profootballfocus.com/new...layers-in-2015

No shit. That would be a mini-fantasy offseason....

this they obviously think he can be coached back up. the raiders d was nothing special last year.

I liken it to what Belichick did with Stephon Gilmore. He was struggling the last year or two in Buffalo, but BB knew he could maximize his ability. Which he did. Gilmore was great in the playoffs for them.

Now, Amerson doesn’t have his talent, but he’s got a lot more than most CBs.

Can he play safety?

Amerson is a great athlete. Eye discipline and risk assessment seem to be his issues. Overly aggressive/not playing within the system gets him in trouble. Maybe Sutton can play more press with the stable he has now, which hopefully means more commitment to pressure.

Hmmmmm.

I forget who the reporter was—but there was someone who said after the Smith/Fuller trade that Sutton wanted to blitz and be more aggressive than he was last year, but didn’t think he had the personnel to do so.

To me, it sounded like it came straight from the mouth of someone within the building because I know the reporter was no Chiefs fan. May have been Rapoport or Schefter.

He's better than Phillip Gaines. That's about the best thing about it
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Stop polishing a turd dude ****ing blows.

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Everyone on that defense, outside of Mack, ****ing sucked. It’s a 1 year deal. Calm the **** down.

You can do a lot worse than Amerson as your #4 corner.

He might’ve sucked last year, but he’s shown the ability to be a good player before and he’s still only 26. Solid move.

He won’t be on the roster in 2019 mark it down.

Oddly enough thats where some scouts had him, due to hip flexibility and backpedal concerns

Same as Sean Smith

But nah, Veach was looking for the same kind of boundary player as Smith, and he most likely got his man

Trash.

Yuck

He was hurt. Morons...

Not thrilled with this move but it’s a cheap deal and he’s a depth corner. Hopefully he heals up and can produce in a different defense.

4 CB deep that’s a hell of a Defence now let’s find a good OLB or DE.

Is he better than Gaines and Acker?

Absolutely more talented. The question is can he recover and bounce back? Hence the incentive laden deal.

LMAO welp that settles it, this was a failure before it even began!

Not by much. Amerson has been trash in every game I’ve seen him play. Not a fan.

Peters
Fuller
Nelson
Amerson

Now we can add a draft pick in round 3, or that’s at least what I’d do

Safety, DE, ILB are priorities before another cornerback that'll sit on the bench for a year or two, IMO.

When healthy, not bad. Has had some concussion issues which were a bit scary. Missed a ton of time to injury over the last couple years.

Definitely. NT needs to be a concern as well.

I’d add a #2 TE before corner too...

Confident we can find an ILB and S in the draft. It's the DL that worries me as far as the draft goes.

Am I wrong in hoping that our first pick goes towards the best rush backer left on the board? I have no faith in Dee Ford and I don't know what to think of KPass.

So would you take the 15th best rush backer or one of the top 5 players at a different position. Yes OLB/Edge is a need, but you can't just focus on one need at a premium position.

Yeah I know, and with the way players fly off the board in bunches it's not a good plan. I just think we're kind of hosed at the position, especially with the way Sutton uses Houston as a corner/safety half the time.

If only the right guy fell. I’m definitely focusing on DL and ILB along with S at 54 and round 3. But you can never have enough corners and couple of these guys have health issues to begin with (Nelson, Amerson and Fuller).