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Originally Posted by staylor26
It’s pretty simple.
They had a 1st round grade on McDuffie.
They didn’t on Karlaftis and Johnson.
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I think this is probably right.
I think they probably had Karlaftis and Johnson ranked similarly as fringe 1st/early 2nd round guys. They had McDuffie as a 1st round guy.
Had Johnson fallen to 30 I'm sure the Chiefs would've strongly considered him. Maybe even ahead of Karlaftis (maybe not; hard to know how much of the after-pick stuff is bullshit fluff).
But the easy and obvious answer is the Chiefs simply graded McDuffie higher than Johnson. And I suspect they weren't even in a minority there - as that random scout said "Johnson was considered more highly among the media than he was in the industry..."
I think a lot of the talk about Johnson sliding was draft talking heads miscalculating more than anything. When I said every year there's a guy that gets talked up by front offices to the media as a smokescreen I cited Moore; turns out it easily could have been Johnson this year.
Guys who start 'rising' for no obvious reason should make you question if they're actually rising or if they're just getting tossed out there as red meat during draft season.