It's blatant he was one of the 16 guys they had a 1st round grade on and saw him fall to striking distance..

Dude was rated the third best cornerback prospect behind stingley and Gardner. Everything I read about him sounds like he's good and was supposed to be a top 15 pick but fell due to the wide receiver run. Was a legit no brain to trade up for him apparently there was a drop off after him.

Exactly.

And this move also tells me Johnson wasn’t one of those 16, and they were probably comfortable with him or Karlaftis at 30.

There was a big drop off after him. Beach said they didn’t set a visit with him b/c they didn’t think he’d be available. Also, the draft value of the picks we gave up was 261. The value of the pick we got was 262, so it was pretty much dead even.

So far, this is a great draft.

Bless Vrett Beach.

Can you gouge out In58men eyes out instead? I'd be in favor of that.

I don't like his height, I think that's underrated in a db, but doesn't seem to bother people who know way more about fb than me, so... but yeah, I will feel much better after tomorrow. Kid will be good - I don't know much about either of our picks. You guys seem to be mostly happy, so rock-on.

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The average NFL cornerback is 5-foot-11, 193.4 pounds. The average wide receiver: 6-foot-1. .


Trent McDuffie HEIGHT 5'11" WEIGHT 193lbs

ya I was gonna say, you usually hear about a CB that's over 6 ft. The announcers will be like "damn he's 6'1" that's really tall for a CB" or some shit like that. Seems pretty average height for a CB to me :shrug:

McDuffie will be great. He’s smart and won’t make many rookie mistakes. Solid starter with both picks. Chiefs went for high floor guys that will start. We needed instant starters and got two with our first two picks. It’s not as sexy as what I was hoping for but I’m happy.

not going to pout about it - after all they're players for my favorite football team. Let's do go get Pickens tomorrow though, please.

so now the Chiefs are being reactionary?

I liked it better when we controlled the narrative and teams were trying to catch us. .

did you look at arm lengths...or do u think CB play defense with their foreheads?

I think we as Chiefs fans are a little spoiled too when it comes to how Veach has hit on so many players in the secondary without spending premium assets lately (Sneed, Ward, Fenton etc). In reality that just isn’t viable season after season, cornerback was a weakness and Veach addressed it with a guy they think highly of.

Also we don’t really know how the Chiefs front office views this draft in regards to talent in the 2nd-4th rounds when comparing DB to WR for example. Could potentially have a few guys left on their board at the WR position that they feel like are going to be available and still be huge contributors. Don’t have to go very far in history to see some big name WR’s taken in the 2nd round or later (Metcalfe, Kupp, Mclaren, AJ Brown).

Don’t really have a reason to distrust Veach, evaluate the draft with a bit more critical eye after rounds 2-4.

Also need to draft a replacement for Fenton who will more likely be gone after this season cuz he's on the last year his deal. With our draft history in the late rounds hopefully we can find another late round bloomer.