Yup - easily.

And with Nnadi/Jones back this year, you can probably pass on the early DT and maybe someone like Hall (or even Jones) slides to the 3rd. Some of those space-eater types really start falling down draft boards when the bullets start flying.

Williams, Thomas, Williams would be an easy W for me. Then if Jones is there at 62, great. If not I would consider Hall there (he does fit what we do pretty well). Obviously I'd be on board with Dulcich in the third.

Then look at CB w/ the 4th as I think there are some nice value plays likely to be there. McCollum, Taylor-Britt, Armour-Davis, Alontae Taylor, Mario Goodrich; one of those guys will fall from that group. Marcus Jones has size issues that could push him but he'd be a nice slot replacement if you're committed to Fenton out wide. And double dip at CB or shift to S w/ the other 4th.

And as is my custom, I refuse to care about 7th round picks or comment on them in any way. Draft my dog and a nun for all I care.

I've done that a few times on the mock simulators.

I always go 1 or 2 trades too far and end up drafting my first guy at like 47 with 2 or 3 of my favorite targets going between 35 and 46.

Aggravating as hell.

I like Nate a lot, but his reliance on Pro Football Focus for his mock drafts make them pretty bad.

Boye Mafe is a not a good fit for KC's currrent scheme. He's a 34 OLB/2-point stance guy. I like that Drake Jackson is young and has a frame and think that's more of a long-term fit than Mafe.

Re: a scenario where the Patriots work the Chiefs and Packers against each other if a WR the Packers want is on the board... cool. Let them do that. Let the Packers overpay.

And then call the Patriots and get 22 from them and take the DE you want.

I just don't see trading up for a WR in this group unless Olave is in a range they can get to.

I'm good with all of that. I just can't get behind trading up for Williams in the first. I just can't.

If I look at our biggest needs right now....WR is not even top 2. DE and CB are bigger needs and trading up 8 spots to take Williams is a waste of a pick IMO.

I would much rather give up more....and get up high enough to take Jermaine Johnson.

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If you trade up for Williams you're not trading up for a WR - you're trading up for Jameson Williams.

You don't execute that trade up because you're worried about not getting the 3rd or 4th best WR prospect in the draft. You don't do it because for someone like Olave, for instance. Because that would be need based.

You do it because you think Jameson Williams is the BEST WR in this draft over a meaningful timeline and has that sort of ability to be a legitimate #1, 1,400 yard, game-breaking WR here. You're not considering need at all at that point - you're just going and getting a blue-chip player at 21.

And IF you believe that, I'm absolutely fine with it, especially at that cost. But you can't do it because of the Breeland Speaks thing where you're worried that there's only one guy left in your tier so you need to go up and get him before that tier gets cleaned out.

You only do it if he's the ONLY guy that was ever in that tier to begin with, IMO.

Thats the positions they've gotta hit. Now we don't like the players.

You unsufferable assholes.

I’m not a huge fan because of the age, but I just don’t agree that Mafe can’t put his hand in the dirt. He did it at the Senior Bowl and looked great. He meets almost all of the Spags DE requirements aside from his arms being a little shorter than the threshold.

He’s not Ebiketie who is a 3-4 OLB only.

Found it - he used it with our comp pick from Poles to move up to 93 and draft Dulcich.

So n/m - he didn't misplace anything.

You yourself said it - they have to HIT.

You don't want to take guys that don't fit the scheme.

Ebiketie getting mocked to the Chiefs is almost as inexplicable to me as Ridder getting mocked to the Chiefs.

So of course it's going to happen.

I just cannot make sense of it at all.

I was going to say, we don't have the 93rd pick right now...

It comes down to their preference on who they think fit schematically. If they're taking guys who they think fit the best at the positions we like, I'm good with it.

They've got enough good will built up there.

I get it.

I just don't see Jameson Williams as that blue chip player. I can't wait until the draft is here and he goes top 15 so I don't have to spend the entire night dreading the Chiefs trading up for him.

You're talking about something different now. Are we talking about OUR opinions or theirs?