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Originally Posted by Balto
Jonah Williams went from CIN to AZ and would have been our highest grade OT.
Jermaine Eluemunor went from Vegas to Giants and again would have been a huge upgrade in pass blocking at tackle.
George Fant? Tyron Smith? Mekhi Becton? La'el Collins?
LOTS of names that would have been better on a rookie
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Half of these guys are not left tackles.
Eluemunor is a RT/G. Becton crashed out hard at T and is a G now. George Fant is a RT. Jonah Williams is a RT now. And all of those guys were dogshit last year.
The only actual LT in that group is Tyron Smith - who got a really big deal from the Jets.
This place would have melted down had the Chiefs made a big commitment to Smith or signed one of those dudes to play LT. Especially Jonah Williams, who was so bad at LT the Bengals committed big FA dollars to Orlando Brown to get him off LT, and then was one of the worst starting T in football at RT.
Which exhibits the point: People need to be realistic in their expectations of what it costs to acquire LTs, and the difficulty in acquiring good ones.
Not a lot of them are being produced right now. The ones that are are diffiult to acquire in the first place, unless you're picking very high in the draft. And they rarely impact right away, usually not even reaching "adequate" play until the start of their second full season.
It's easy to say "FIX IT VEACH." The fix is, well, not easy.