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Originally Posted by patteeu
No one is really sure whether he's hurt or not, as far as I know. Jason La Confora tweeted that there was a "serious injury concern", but that hasn't been confirmed or explained by anyone. Eric Winston said he thought he was cut for philosophical reasons. He denied that it was injury related. He speculated that the Chiefs would draft a tackle, but was clear that he hadn't heard that from anyone at Arrowhead.
My interpretation is that Andy Reid just didn't think he fit the kind of line Reid wants to build and that with free agency and the draft full of respectable tackles he thinks he can do better.  |
This is my interpretation, but ymmv. Winston thinks the Chiefs draft a tackle, but I'm not so sure. If they're forced to pick at 1.1, I think there's a pretty good chance that they take a tackle as BPA, but it sure looks like they're working hard not to need to take a particular position (They got Alex Smith at QB, they franchised Albert, and they've been actively trying to fix their DL through FA). My guess is that they'd like to trade down before taking BPA whoever that might be.