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Originally Posted by staylor26
Many of you are way too black and white on this one. It's entirely possible that he's going to make a full recovery, but he falls to 31 due to the risk and the Chiefs feel comfortable taking it there.
There's just so much that goes into all this stuff and the talking in absolutes is just silly to me.
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I don't disagree at all.
The Chiefs could be willing to take that risk.
I'm simply saying that I wouldn't be. I didn't see him as some elite blue-chip slam dunk long-term badass LT prospect
before the injury.
If he's a guy that would have gone in a fairly notorious soft spot for OTs anyway (the history of OTs in that 8-15 range isn't sparkling by any means) and now you have an injury that we simply CANNOT know how it will turn out -- I'm just out on that.
It isn't that I do/do not trust the Chiefs medical staff -- it's that no matter how good they are, they can't get an answer to this question. It's nothing more than gambling.
And I don't think the reward is worth the risk. If this were a guy who'd have been a top 5 pick but/for the injury and the clear best OT in the draft, that's one thing. But I don't think that's the case. And as such, I'm just not interested.
Maybe the Chiefs will be. Maybe they think he was a better prospect pre-injury than I do. Maybe they have different data than I've been able to find on the injury recovery.
Shit, maybe they're just less risk averse.
But for me, I think it's incredibly unlikely that Simmons would be at the top of my board there.