Keep ****ing doubting Rishaw Johnson.

[Direckshun]

http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2014/3...-johnson-guard

Kansas City Chiefs G Rishaw Johnson impressed late last season
By Joel Thorman
on Mar 19 2014, 8:44a

Regular readers may have noticed that we recently posted an item on Chiefs safety Sanders Commings and whether he could end up being the answer at free safety. Right here we have another post wondering if an in-house player is the answer at a position of need.

The position is guard and the player is Rishaw Johnson.

As a refresher, Johnson was an SEC recruit at Ole Miss in 2008. He was there until 2010 when he was kicked off the team. He then went to California (PA). He joined the Seahawks in his first season in the NFL then came to Kansas City his second year. The league lists him at 6'3 and 313 pounds. Last year's starting guards are listed at 340 pounds (Geoff Scwhartz), 306 pounds (Jon Asamoah) and 305 pounds (Jon Asamoah).

Matt Conner included Johnson in our in-house players series earlier this year but I came across a couple more of items on Johnson that warrants another look-see.

Last week, I saw this from Lance Zierlein, sports talk radio host in Houston and football writer:

Lance Zierlein @LanceZierlein

@bkissel7 @Schottey Chiefs believe Rishaw is ready to take over. They LOVED how he played vs. SD at end of the year.

Johnson was among the Chiefs backups that played in Week 17 against the Chargers while the starters rested but a backup throughout the season. That caught my interest for obvious reasons being free agency week and all. If the Chiefs believe they possibly / maybe / could have a potential starting guard on the roster, they probably wouldn't go out and spend big money on a guard in free agency, right?

Terez A. Paylor @TerezPaylor

This is true. Did well vs SD RT @ArrowheadPride: Seems like a long shot but Chiefs do have an in-house option at OG http://sbn.to/1jxEmMw

But wait! There's more!

Schwartz, who is now with the Giants in New York, went on The Drive with Danny Parkins on 610 Sports on Tuesday. Danny asked him what the Chiefs have in the guys who were behind him on the Chiefs line last season.

"Rishaw played really well in the Chargers game," Schwartz said. "He's a guy that has a lot of talent and he really developed as the year went on. He's strong and explosive off the ball. Sometimes it takes guys a couple of years to get comfortable where they're playing in a game. He did a great job against the Chargers."

Another mention of the Chargers game ... interesting. This led me to asking Chiefs GM John Dorsey on our call yesterday how important that Week 17 game was for the coaching staff and front office, getting the youngsters a shot to play.

"Anytime you can get another opportunity to evaluate the players that don't get to contribute on a week-in, week-out basis, that's very helpful," Dorsey said. "What it does is it helps the coaching staff get a degree of comfort that those guys in the personnel department as they build this thing. That's what the communication between the coaches and the personnel staff does. It's always an advantage to get those guys to play and those guys showed very well on Week 17 of the NFL schedule."

Unfortunately, Dorsey wasn't giving us an in-depth scouting report on Johnson but he did say this: "He's going to come in here and he's going to compete. He's showed that he can play the game of football, and I'm just excited to see how much stride he has made here this year."

It's a long way to the season opener with more free agency and the 2014 NFL Draft to acquire more talent as well as evaluation opportunities such as OTAs and training camp to evaluate existing talent. Rishaw Johnson is one of those existing talents that is one to keep an eye on.

It's almost like the Sanders Commings situation. You have hopes that this guy can come in and take over the job next year. But he's probably too young and inexperienced to hand the job to him. Competition and veteran insurance (Jeff Linkenbach?) is needed.

My gut has been telling me for a while that the Chiefs first round pick will be an offensive lineman. That would obviously shake things up.

[Messier]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

to me 6 or 7 wins and a youth movement is a total punt

we made the playoffs and have a decent QB for the first time in a decade. We have some talent and i was expecting a 'push' to challenge Denver. Instead we rollover and give up.

What is on paper doesn't always translate to the field but our attitude is 'rebuilding' and that just totally sucks.

Apparently they are going to rebuild until Manning retires and hope we can win then.

What are they rebuilding?

[TEX]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

to me 6 or 7 wins and a youth movement is a total punt

we made the playoffs and have a decent QB for the first time in a decade. We have some talent and i was expecting a 'push' to challenge Denver. Instead we rollover and give up.

What is on paper doesn't always translate to the field but our attitude is 'rebuilding' and that just totally sucks.

Apparently they are going to rebuild until Manning retires and hope we can win then.

Yep. Reel the fans back in and let them figure it out after they're hooked.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

to me 6 or 7 wins and a youth movement is a total punt

we made the playoffs and have a decent QB for the first time in a decade. We have some talent and i was expecting a 'push' to challenge Denver. Instead we rollover and give up.

What is on paper doesn't always translate to on the field but our attitude is 'rebuilding' and that just totally sucks.

Apparently they are going to rebuild until Manning retires and hope we can win then.

I don't see it as a total punt and a youth movement. We were never going to keep up with Denver in FA. We didn't have the money due to some of the contracts in place. Yeah, you can sit here and say that a bunch of things could have been done to give yourself salary cap room. Maybe they feel that they have replacements right now to fill in some of those holes. They've chosen their path. It will either make them look like geniuses or make them look like everyone else. I'm done getting pissed off because they aren't doing what I wanted them to do. It doesn't make anything better.

[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

Seriously, what person from which planet thought that would be acceptable parlance?

I have no idea what that means. Not even ****ing urbandictionary.com helps.

Mushroom club: Those guys that SNR mentioned having a circle jerk when he was in high school

Marginal makeup: Is either penis size or a knock on his staying power.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by Messier

What are they rebuilding?

Seriously???? The O-line for starters....

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by Messier

What are they rebuilding?

many times when a new GM/HC come in they gut the thing and start over immediately. Apparently we are going to change it by attrition. Let all the guys from the previous administration leave via FA and draft replacements.

full 5-year plan mode

Flowers,Hali will be gone next year ... maybe Sean Smith too

DJ and Charles the next

apparently the goal is to do the changeover slowly enough to maintain 8-8 and during the process.

I'm so pissed i get even see straight when i think about it

[Messier]

Originally Posted by TEX

Seriously???? The O-line for starters....

Basically one new player that they didn't play extensively last year.

[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by TEX

Seriously???? The O-line for starters....

Yeah, I would qualify the replacement of 3/5 of the offensive line as a rebuild, especially when you factor in that the other 2. The right tackle will be in his second year and didn't even play the entire season of the first and the center played in his first full season without injury.

The o line is going to be ugly me thinks.

[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by Messier

Basically one new player that they didn't play extensively last year.

Albert, Asamoah, Schwartz?

[TEX]

Originally Posted by philfree

So actually seeing a player in a real NFL game is like the combine? O.K.

No - seeing him in only 1 game and disregarding the majority body f work of the season (Or lack there of) then heavily weighting the decision on the 1 game is like heavily weighting a player based on his performance in the NFL Combine.

Never mind, I answered the question before I saw it was you who asked it...

[TEX]

Originally Posted by Messier

Basically one new player that they didn't play extensively last year.

Dude, are you reeruned? I'm "basically" trying to see if there's a reason why you cant count past 1...Holy shit!

[Messier]

Originally Posted by Dick Bull

Albert, Asamoah, Schwartz?

Asamoah and Schwartz didn't start together, they played the same position.

[RunKC]

Dorsey is using his draft picks instead of old free agents to be the difference. Let's hope this works like it is for his friend John Schneider in Seattle.

[Messier]

Originally Posted by TEX

Dude, are you reeruned? I'm "basically" trying to see if there's a reason why you cant count past 1...

Oh, shut up.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by Messier

Basically one new player that they didn't play extensively last year.

I'm glad somebody is happy with that current mediocre mode we are using.