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Old Yesterday, 07:59 AM   #1198
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Originally Posted by Chris Meck View Post
So let me get this straight...

There are people who would be UPSET if the 'top 5 pick before the injury' Left Tackle that we just took in the first round actually takes the starting Left Tackle job in training camp because we signed a former 5th round pick that's been backing up Trent Williams for $15m in free agency when that was the best we could do to make sure we could put an actual NFL player at LT to protect Mahomes?

Like....somehow that's not the absolute BEST thing we could possibly hope for?

I mean...what the actual ****?

So what if we overpay for a swing tackle/insurance policy for one season. I give zero ****s, and actually feel GOOD about the fact that we went from zero LT's on our roster to having TWO.
I think it would be fantastic if Jalen Royals proves to be a #1 wide receiver in August and immediately leaps to the top of our depth chart.

I think it's folly to act as though its at all likely to happen.

And he doesn't carry with him the risk of re-injury that Simmons would 10 months off a major knee surgery; 4 months after he just started doing weight work on said knee.

We have an established veteran starter at RT. We have a guy we liked enough to put 5% of our cap towards at LT. We have options that make trying to start a rookie coming off major injury in week 1 unnecessarily aggressive. Or at the very least, incredibly unlikely.

The 'best' thing that could possibly happen is that Jaylon Moore proves to be a premier LT and gives our rehabbing rookie an opportunity to learn the NFL game while simultaneously getting back to 100% health.

Or are we now arguing that not only was Simmons a slam-dunk turnkey starting LT in week 1 AND had an injury so minor as to allow him to start in Week 1 without any sort of reinjury risk....and that he fell to 32 anyway?

SOMETHING has to give here. He can't simultaneously not have had THAT serious an injury AND been an obvious week 1 starting talent who fell to the back of the 1st. Because if so...well shit, why NOT just start trying to figure out how we'll use Hollywood Brown at WR4?

At some point you have to assume some level of rationality in the NFL draft.
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