Pro Day Updates

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

I love how you just assume anybody not drafted in the top 40 cannot start day 1 but everybody drafted before that can.

How many LT’s drafted in the 3rd Rd or later were good last year?

Trey Pipkins
Alejandro Villanueva
David Bahktiari
Trent Brown
Charles Leno
Terron Armstead
Cornelius Lucas
Jordan Mailata* TBD

That’s how many I saw. So really only 3 proven good players. That’s a very small amount out of 32 teams.

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to take advantage of the best opportunity to fix a glaring problem.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by RunKC

How many LT’s drafted in the 3rd Rd or later were good last year?

Trey Pipkins
Alejandro Villanueva
David Bahktiari
Trent Brown
Charles Leno
Terron Armstead
Cornelius Lucas
Jordan Mailata* TBD

That’s how many I saw. So really only 3 proven good players. That’s a very small amount out of 32 teams.

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to take advantage of the best opportunity to fix a glaring problem.

And if you go back 8 years or so, you'll find that almost as many first round LT's fail as succeed.

It's a tough position, both to play and evaluate.

[kccrow]

Originally Posted by RunKC

How many LT’s drafted in the 3rd Rd or later were good last year?

Trey Pipkins
Alejandro Villanueva
David Bahktiari
Trent Brown
Charles Leno
Terron Armstead
Cornelius Lucas
Jordan Mailata* TBD

That’s how many I saw. So really only 3 proven good players. That’s a very small amount out of 32 teams.

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to take advantage of the best opportunity to fix a glaring problem.

Take those 3 and look at the year they became a starter.

Villanueva, Wk 7 of Yr 2 when Kelvin Beachum tore his ACL
Bakhtiari, Wk 1 of Yr 1 due to Bryan Bulaga tearing an ACL.
Armstead, Wk 15 of Yr 1 when Charles Brown went down for good.

None were drafted to be the immediate starter. Only 1 actually did start due to injury.

So really, one day one starter in the group. The chances of getting that are slim to damn near non-existent.

They need development.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by kccrow

Take those 3 and look at the year they became a starter.

Villanueva, Wk 7 of Yr 2 when Kelvin Beachum tore his ACL
Bakhtiari, Wk 1 of Yr 1 due to Bryan Bulaga tearing an ACL.
Armstead, Wk 15 of Yr 1 when Charles Brown went down for good.

None were drafted to be the immediate starter. Only 1 actually did start due to injury.

So really, one day one starter in the group. The chances of getting that are slim to damn near non-existent.

They need development.

So do several of the 1st and 2nd round prospects.

Outside of Sewell and Slater, Darrisaw in the top 3 needs development.

Many of the guys in the next crop are either right tackle prospects like Eichenberg or they, imagine this, need development.

Guys with a high ceiling AND can start day 1 go in the top 10. The Chiefs aren't getting one of those guys.

So people better decide which traits are most important to them because the Chiefs aren't getting someone that checks every box. They had the #1 overall pick and weren't able to check every box.