Report:Chiefs looking to trade Up in Draft

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Shields68

Just not seeing them trade Smith at this point. First, there is no FA's you can spend the 22 million on. Second, it would open up another hole in the line and 3rd it would need to be done prior to the draft and that team would need to make sure Smith is going to sign long term. So really it would need to happen like yesterday. I do not see Smith being an easy contract.

No, but you could put that money to use on extensions for McDuffie and Karlaftis. Maybe even Chenal if there's any left and he's interested in the discussion (I probably wouldn't be in his shoes -- his markets going to be awfully tough to gauge so I'd want to test it if I were him).

I believe the bonus money would need to be factored into this season's cap even if the final year of the rookie deal remains unchanged.

I mean I guess I don't specifically recall since we NEVER seem to sign our extension eligible guys before they finish out their walk year anymore....

Still completely bizarre to me that we didn't get this done with Smith last season if we're suddenly interested in doing it now. We learned nothing we didn't already know and simply cost ourselves a lot more money.

This has been handled pretty poorly by Veach.

[Shields68]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

No, but you could put that money to use on extensions for McDuffie and Karlaftis. Maybe even Chenal if there's any left and he's interested in the discussion (I probably wouldn't be in his shoes -- his markets going to be awfully tough to gauge so I'd want to test it if I were him).

I believe the bonus money would need to be factored into this season's cap even if the final year of the rookie deal remains unchanged.

I mean I guess I don't specifically recall since we NEVER seem to sign our extension eligible guys before they finish out their walk year anymore....

Still completely bizarre to me that we didn't get this done with Smith last season if we're suddenly interested in doing it now. We learned nothing we didn't already know and simply cost ourselves a lot more money.

This has been handled pretty poorly by Veach.

I think the plan was to let him walk. But any long term deal probably would have increased the cap. I mean he only made 3 million or so last year. Guessing any deal he would want a huge signing bonus and doubt the chiefs would want to go more that 4 years.

But i think after the Super Bowl, they decided on a bigger more physical line. He has probably more years of productivity than Thuney... Get a draft, still pretty much the same % of the cap towards the OLine...

[dtrain]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

No, but you could put that money to use on extensions for McDuffie and Karlaftis. Maybe even Chenal if there's any left and he's interested in the discussion (I probably wouldn't be in his shoes -- his markets going to be awfully tough to gauge so I'd want to test it if I were him).

I believe the bonus money would need to be factored into this season's cap even if the final year of the rookie deal remains unchanged.

I mean I guess I don't specifically recall since we NEVER seem to sign our extension eligible guys before they finish out their walk year anymore....

Still completely bizarre to me that we didn't get this done with Smith last season if we're suddenly interested in doing it now. We learned nothing we didn't already know and simply cost ourselves a lot more money.

This has been handled pretty poorly by Veach.

My guess is they were going to let Smith walk and keep Thuney until they saw Suamatia play left guard and decided to trade Thuney and keep smith.

[poolboy]

Originally Posted by dtrain

My guess is they were going to let Smith walk and keep Thuney until they saw Suamatia play left guard and decided to trade Thuney and keep smith.

Kingsley prob played LG because he needed an in game experience
somewhere , maybe to see if he could get up to game speed....Im not penciling him in yet

[dtrain]

Originally Posted by poolboy

Kingsley prob played LG because he needed an in game experience
somewhere , maybe to see if he could get up to game speed....Im not penciling him in yet

Andy pretty much said so at his last presser how good he looked at guard.