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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

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.

Fair enough.