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By Joel Thorman @JoelThorman on Feb 23 2014, 7:56a 264

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The Kansas City Chiefs will meet with two of the top receivers in the 2014 NFL Draft -- USC WR Marqise Lee and Texas A&M WR Mike Evans.
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Between the college all-star games (East-West Shrine game, Senior Bowl), the NFL Combine, pro days and pre-draft visits, the Kansas City Chiefs will meet with a lot of players before the 2014 NFL Draft. In fact, GM John Dorsey told reporters that they will interview about 75 percent of the rookies in this draft class.

That said, I admit I was a little excited reading from the KC Star's Terez Paylor and Chiefs Spin's Herbie Teope that the Chiefs were meeting with two of the top receivers in this class.

That would be USC's Marqise Lee and Texas A&M's Mike Evans.

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Terez A. Paylor @TerezPaylor Follow
Texas A&M receiver Mike Evans said the #Chiefs were the first team he met with yesterday. Said he talked to WR coach David Culley.
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Herbie Teope @HerbieTeope Follow
USC WR Marqise Lee said the #Chiefs are one of the teams he will meet with today. Also said has meetings with Jets, Lions.
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Herbie Teope @HerbieTeope Follow USC WR Marqise Lee said the #Chiefs are one of the teams he will meet with today. Also said has meetings with Jets, Lions.


Lee weighed in at 5'11 and 192 pounds while Evans was listed at 6'4 and 231 pounds. Without knowing a whole lot about each player's game, Lee seems like the more realistic option just knowing what I know about Andy Reid's history of receivers. He doesn't have the history of getting those 6'5 behemoth receivers who tower over everyone. He likes speed. Not that Mike Evans wouldn't work either ... the guy looked like an awesome player in college.

As Dorsey said, the Chiefs interview a lot of players but I do find these two especially interesting. Lee has been mocked the Chiefs regularly since the season ended. AP reader Bsrkr posted about Lee here.
Evans is the No. 7 overall player on the Mocking The Draft top 200 big board while Lee is No. 12. Read the Evans scouting report here and the Lee scouting report here.<iframe style="display: none;" allowtransparency="true" id="rufous-sandbox" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

I've cooled off on Marquise Lee recently, though I would still love to have him on the team.

Lee would be a fine addition.

Kelvin Benjamin for me.

I'm more interested in prospective long snappers in Round 1.
Nobody ever talks about those.

I won't hold Lee liable for USC's craptastic QB play.

smokescreen

we're fooling everyone so we can get our coveted 1st round OL.

They also met with Ha Ha Clinton Dix and Calvin pryor

I also like Odell Beckman Jr more than Lee. Randall Cobb type player.

I've got a thread I'm updating with a list of every guy we've reportedly talked to, met with, and interviewed.

Feel free to contribute if you catch any additions!

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=280847

BPA

GTFO Dex

Old news. Dorsey said they'll interview roughly 75% of the draft class.

Well a lot of us regular folk aren't going to ever see it since we don't measure up to Direchshun quality of standards for the draft.

Evans>>>Lee
Beckham>>Lee

I don't quite get this running joke.

How many OL have the Chiefs taken in the 1st, in the past 10 drafts?

The answer is 2.

And one was a trade.

it's not so much of what we've done, but more of the Chiefs are reeruned and will find a way to screw it up.

No, dude. You're wrong on this one. Your big complaint is Lee had too many drops this season, as if his previous seasons of complete badassery never existed.

exactly, It comes naturally to this franchise. If we had drafted Peyton Manning, we would have found a way to **** it up

Evans. After seeing him run, his hand size. And no, this guy is NOT BALDWIN.

I don't see how we'd be in range for either of them. Plus as stated before, they're interviewing just about everybody with a pulse.

i was surprised by his speed.

Mike Evans is the real deal.

My only thing to think about is which would I prefer betwen Odell Beckham and Evans. After Watkins, those are my top 2 WRs. Hopefully one of them falls to KC. I know the Jets would love Mike Evans out there. Perfect fit.

My only concern about Mike Evans is that he doesn't get great separation, or even really good separation. Now, maybe he just has never had to, and he will develop that at the next level... but maybe not.

Alex Smith has shown time and again that he will throw to the open receiver, and no one else. Jump balls just aren't his thing, so I'm not sure exactly how useful Evans would be in this offense with this QB. Of course, he also has sick hands, is tall as shit, with gorilla arms.

I don't see how Evans isn't the #1 WR on the board after that combine. It's not like he doesn't have the production to back up the workout numbers.

Yeah I think Beckham fits our offense better, but I see Evans as a big play guy that will beat a CB one on one in most situations because of his body and ball skills. Evans is also a very smart player.

Working with Manziel he was constantly finding ways to come back to the QB, and help out his guy after the play was broken down. That's an important trait IMO. He averaged over 20 yards per catch which is just insane.

The size, speed ratio is off the charts, and he plays fast as well. It's not a situation like with Baldwin where the guy timed well, but doesn't show up. As for separation concerns, I'm not entirely too worried about it.

He will learn in the NFL how to use his body to get open and use his hands in particular to gain leverage on the DB. Similar to Vincent Jackson, but I think Evans has more upside. Keep in mind he's a RS Sophomore.

Agreed, my first thoughts as well

1. How come Evans doesn't get more separation with that speed and quickness? (3 cone a bit slow 7.08)

2. Alex Smith tried to throw some 'jump ball' type passes to our receivers and they failed to win the battle for the ball. Can't blame him for not doing it much. I wouldn't keep throwing it up if i didn't think your guy was going to win.

No thanks. I would prefer Beckham, Lee, Cooks or even Josh Huff much later than Benjamin. All those guys appear to run better routes than Benjamin.

I guess I'll say this... If I'm the Jets, or most NFL teams, I take Evans. If I'm the Chiefs... I think I gotta go with Beckham. Plus he gets to join our kick return circus.

That's the problem with having a QB who is just a "space thrower".

If they're both gone, which is very possible, I think I'd look at Pryor, or possibly even Brandin Cooks. I don't care about size, the guy can play.

We're also extremely unlucky. I mean the first time we get the number 1 pick there's no one worth taking. But the previous year was Luck. This year there's a few Quarterbacks and Clowney, Mack, etc

Not only that, we have the first pick the year after the qb, then no second rounder in the deepest draft in the last 10 years.

We had a crap load of picks in the 2008 draft, which was a pretty good class. Dorsey is just going to have to basically not miss on the first two picks, and maybe even the first three picks. If he misses, that's not good news because there's a ton of talent in the class.

I'm with Evans.

Guys like us hear about interviews with players and think we might be interested in drafting them by moving up/down. GM's are already building files for future free agents/released guys. Never stop compiling data.

Not only that, but you're prolly gonna be playing against these guys at some point

We're finally gonna get us a great Wideout, I can just feel it.

Steve Smith: 5'9" 185
Brandin Cooks: 5'10" 190 (at 21)

works for me...although I don't think he'll fall that far.

Cooks might sneak into the 1st. Likely a high 2nd round pick though.

plz no more little dude receivers... especially when there are a bunch of guys above 6'1 who can run a 4.3-4.4 in this draft even in the later rounds..

Alex's track record has always been with bigger receivers.. Vernon Davis 6'3, Antonio Bryant 6'2, Michael Crabtree 6'1..

Tiny catch radius is the downside of Cooks. I would take Jordan Matthews over him, I think he's as close as you can come to Jerry Rice in terms of work ethic in WRs coming out of college these days.

separation over catch radius for our team imo

Again, my issue is that we can get 1 of 10-15 players who would end up being good/great slot guys in this draft. There are only a few realistic potential #1 wrs in this draft. The rest are 2s and slot guys. Cooks falls in the slot category.

Marquis Lee is a ****ing amazing player that we would be lucky to have at 23.

That guy has game breaker written all over him.

If he can stay healthy I'd take him. If Lee wasn't injured last season then he'd be a surefire top 10 prospect

Yep....I love him in this offense...perfect...dynamic athlete and play maker


http://nfl.si.com/2014/02/23/odell-b...ide-receivers/

all that play making and also runs a 4.31....he would be a great weapon for Smith


http://www.neworleanssaints.com/medi...b-3a60713e35ba

Remember the name if he is there at our pick....Im all in with this guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jZbGUMevcI

Just embed the videos

Lee's a bit too injury prone for my taste.
I'd prefer either Odell Beckham or Brandin Cooks.

BINGO !! From here on out it's all that will be is serious bluff NFL poker for sure;)

Injury prone?

Huh?

I'm pretty sure he has only missed like 3 games in 3 years...but I could be mistaken.

If he had a decent quarterback, he would have killed it again. He had almost 3000 yards and 25 touchdowns in 2 years with Matt Barkley.

Kids a stud.

I do not know much about them.

Which one of them is fast, runs good routes and has good hands? Basically a number 1?

With Robert Woods as well. He didn't have Woods in 2013 to help him out. But it wasn't just the QB play, it was the fact that he dropped a bunch of passes that puts me off. Then he goes and doesn't break a 4.4 40 like I thought he would.

Beckham. He has long arms and big hands for his size too.

I like Evans and Beckham.

I think there are guys comparable to Lee that can be had later.

I think you're the only person who thought Lee would run a 4.4. To me he is what I thought he was.

Beckham

Might even be Lee himself.

True, Lee may drop.

Beckham would be the only Chiefs receiver that 'hand catches' if we draft him.