Chiefs release KeiVarae Russell

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

The other thing to keep in mind, guys, is that without trading out of the first round, which resulted in the Chris Jones selection in the second round, the Chiefs wouldn't have even had a third round selection to make.

That trade also opened up the opportunity to draft multiple 4th and 5th round players, all of whom made the roster, save for Kevin Hogan, who most likely wouldn't have been drafted by the Chiefs, either, had it not been for all of Dorsey's moves.

For as hell bent as Dorsey was on getting back into the third round (seriously, Captain Ahab wasn't as fixated as Dorsey was on the third round), he sure shit it away, didn't he?

So in effect, the Chiefs gave away an additional year of team control of Chris Jones for....nothing. Nothing at all. And that's what I hated about that trade down to begin with.

It wasn't Chris Jones, it was that if you really think Jones is a player, you just take him in the first and leverage the value of the player option to save yourself a shitload in the long-run. Agents are digging their heels in on franchise numbers now that they've gotten so high. The franchise tag isn't going to be much of a benefit for teams going forward. So if you can't get guys extended early, you're stuck fighting in the market for them.

One way to help get that extension is the threat of the 5th year option (see Fisher's deal, and Fisher's deal was even harder because the 5th year option for him was more than twice what it would be for a late first rounder).

The trade down failed.