Exactly.

Y'all should be ready Lucas Niang and Tega Wanogho are your RTs.

What happened if OBJ went down? Or Fisher? Do you think this team doesn’t have a plan if Taylor goes down at LT?

They traded up for McDuffie. They took him because they had targeted him from the beginning. They absolutely took him because of his positional value.

Karlaftis was more of a need pick but even then, I'll give you that one.

But the bottom line here is that you're comparing a draft where we had TWO first round picks to this year's, when we only have 1.

That changes the 1st round strategy completely.

Franchise beat me to it.

Very good point.

The Chiefs entered last years draft with DE being an even more glaring need than RT presently is.

It's absolutely something we've done before and could easily be doing again (while just putting the Niang confidence out there as a smokescreen). And when they let Ward walk before the draft last year, they made CB a need going into that draft as well. The only question was how MUCH of a need (i.e. how much faith did they truly have in Fenton stepping into a starting role).

Turns out that they didn't have much confidence at all, as evidenced by the slew of DBs they took in that draft.

The idea that teams don't draft for need is a great - absolutely ideal, in fact - philosophy. But it doesn't often work out that way. And it's gonna work out that way even less often going forward with Mahomes contract on the books.

We're gonna be making need picks for the foreseeable future here and there. It's just the brave new world we live in now that we have the baddest man on the planet under contract for a decade.

There are worse places to find ourselves...

What happens if we draft an LT in the first round and HE goes down with an injury?

What the **** are you even talking about at this point?

WR and Edge are bigger needs than RT is.

Eh, trade for Hopkins or sign OBJ and you could certainly argue that RT is the bigger need.

Honestly I don't know. But roster-wise, we have two guys already that have shown at least some ability to play RT in Niang and Prince. Not so much at LT. Like very little ability. maybe one of those guys comes into preseason and shows some better ability. But you want Taylor at RT, so we now have three RTs.

But there's no one on the roster to play LT if we assign Taylor to RT1. Which would require that Veach has to draft a functional LT, that has zero NFL experience. That will not be the best-in-class because we can't trade up that far. And then we have to go to Wal-Mart and buy a 'cheap swing OT' off the shelf. At the very least.

Again, I'm not Veach, but this doesn't sound like the best possible plan.

Put another way, of the OTs we now have on the roster, which is the best overall?

I'm pretty sure it's Taylor. And I'm no football wizard, but I'm pretty sure that 100% of the time you put your best OT at LT.

He really wants Taylor at RT and for us to draft Willie Roaf, I think.

Ehhh maybe. We literally have Karlaftis and Omenihu…and that’s pretty much it. Sure they could bring in another veteran (and they probably will) but we don’t have much there.

EDIT: Forgot Danna.

I was talking about WR vs. OT.

Nobody is saying teams don't draft for need. Of course they do and quite often, in fact.

The question is whether or not, when balancing need, player, and positional value, you're giving overwhelming weight to just one aspect of the draft (need) and forsaking the others.

Like you said, "The Chiefs entered last years draft with DE being an even more glaring need than RT presently is."

One, there are going to be guys in the draft that fill bigger needs than RT. There are also going to be guys that have more player or positional value. In fact, at the end of the first, even though there's no guarantees in the draft, you have at least a chance of getting a guy that satisfies all 3.

I'm not saying RT isn't a need. I could totally see them doing it. I just don't want them to do it in the 1st. The only way you could justify drafting a RT first is if you value need greatly over value. I just don't see the Chiefs doing that.

What the F are you talking about DF? I was discussing a simple scenario with Megatron regarding injury scenario if we draft a LT vs RT. See your fat ass out of the conversation if you can't follow a simple two msg exchange