We also have some promising UDFAs from last year that have had a year to learn the system.

It’s possible one of those guys steps up and pushes for playing time.

Multiple WR spots being available with the best QB in the game will motivate some of these kids to play above their ceiling.

The Chiefs have been aggressive for receiver help. They've been in, to some degree, on many of the big names -- JuJu Smith-Schuster, Corey Davis, Curtis Samuel and A.J. Green.

Per Jeremy Fowler.

So yeah, I'd say thats "about every free agent WR".

And calm down.

Remember the name JODY FORTSON JR!!

My issue is, alot of that was somewhat gimmicky stuff, not necessarily WR stuff.

They need someone to come in and be able to win 1 on 1 out at the X in the intermediate area.

So when NE or TB takes Hill and Kelce away, we are going to rely on a rookie WR as our go to option? In the 2018 AFC championship, Sammy stepping up was a huge part of the comeback to force OT after a horrible first half. In the Super Bowl this year, nobody stepped up and mahomes has nobody open even when he had time. Who's going to step up now? A rookie? God, I hope so. or maybe Callaway? those options do not give me too much confidence though. i hope I'm wrong.

Obviously that’s not how the Chiefs feel considering they tried to get Juju and Reynolds

Lol k

Rumored interest doesn’t count. They weren’t going after any of those guys aggressively except JuJu and maybe Reynolds.

If they’ve been as aggressive as you’re claiming, they would’ve signed at least 1 of those guys. They didn’t. That tells me everything I need to know about how how bad they wanted them.

And yet they didn’t sign any of them.

Clearly they’re comfortable doing it through the draft.

One of ESPN's big insiders says that have been, so I may go with what he says?

Same with LT?

If you think the Chiefs “aggressively” pursued all of those WR’s only to end up with 0 of them, then you have a different definition of aggressive than I do.

When Veach is being aggressive, he gets something done.

The second best OT after Williams is still a free agent. They were prepared to give Williams 20+ million per year. They wouldn’t even offer JuJu more than 8 with incentives.

So no, not the same as LT.

The second best OT would be....who exactly?

They only have so much draft capitol to use on guys that will be ready day 1. They need a WR to be ready to play out there day one.

It's possible they couldn't close the deal on guys they aggressively pursued.

LMAO

No they don’t. They really don’t.

I don't really think I'd have dipped much toes into the FA market at WR once a few guys were gone anyway, but if they've been aggressive and have missed thats not good.

You can say that all you want. Unless they're gonna have Pringle do it, they do.

Because Pringle is such a significant drop off from Robinson and Sammy on the sidelines.

No, but thats why they are trying to upgrade the spot.

Wanting to upgrade isn’t the same as needing a WR that can go out there day 1. They don’t need a day 1 WR. They need to add talent and depth for the long haul.

I’m sure competing teams are using the

“They just cut both starting OTs and haven’t resigned 2 of their own receivers. Shit there’s only 1 ball and nobody besides Hill and Kelce get it. If you want to try to build your value for next offseason, good luck in KC. If they don’t fix that OL, Pat might get killed. Did you watch the Super Bowl?”

Well, currently their X WR is an undrafted FA who's been pretty meh, so yeah, I'd say they "need" pretty hard out there.

They need both.

Cant keep throwing garbage out there at the x and letting teams bracket Kelce and Hill.

And their X WR for the majority of last season was Demarcus ****ing Robinson and they went 14-2 and had far bigger problems than their X WR.

Shit if thats the case, why'd they upgrade the LG spot, it was fine

Pretty clear Veach didn't see any of the FA WRs this year as long term solutions. All we offered were 1 year prove it deals.

If the OL was even average, it wouldn’t have even mattered and they would’ve repeated.

They need more talent/depth at WR in general. They don’t need a day 1 starter for the regular season.

This I agree with.

I also think guys want 1 year deals to see what's gonna happen with the cap.

Umm are we seriously comparing the IOL to the WR position for the 2020 season?

1 was obviously a much bigger problem than the other. JFC.

It was good enough to win 14 games and go to the SB.

But 1 was a clear issue along the way while the other wasn’t.

The Chiefs finished with 2 top 5 WR’s in 2020.

Their IOL was bottom 3.

Bingo!

So now we are going to fill LT, WR, DE, and Center in this draft with players good enough to start and produce year one? Not to mention all the depth we need.

3 picks in the first 100 (at the end of each round)
2 in the 4th
2 in the 5th
1 in the 6th

I look forward to seeing Reid's super intern have the best draft in NFL history this year.

1. Center is almost surely going to be Reiter. Worst case scenario Allegretti is starting there. We have a starting caliber C on the roster.

2. They will sign a DE. There are still a number of options.

That leaves LT and WR for the big needs through the draft.

It’s also entirely possible, even likely, that they sign or trade for a veteran LT.

Hindsight being 20/20, would've been nice to use the money we'd earmarked for Williams on Curtis Samuel and Carl Lawson instead. That part of Williams leading us on to maximize his SF deal does kind of suck.

Yep. I think that’s the part that annoys me the most about it. If we weren’t in on Williams for as long as we were...we may have been in on other guys.

Assuming we use our first pick on tackle I wouldn't mind grabbing Tamorrion Terry and Jaelan Darden 3rd round and later.

Terry would give us a big, fast body to plug into Sammy's spot and could hurt people if they overcompensate for Hill and/or Kelce. Darden is a fun toy that I think Reid could throw out as well.

I'm not sure why we couldn't have been in on the other guys anyway. they didn't sign until after williams turned us down at least samuel didn't and there were other guys we could have went after for a plan b.

No deal on 5 of their 6 reported top FA prospects with Ingram leaving a team visit

Sonofabitch

Yea and the best they can possibly hope for is a solid draft because it’s impossible to have 2 great drafts in a row.

Might as well pack it in.

Hopefully we can be competitive in 2022.

Meh. Only missed out on one that we were putting actual effort into signing. Throwing out a bunch of rejected one year prove it deals doesn't really register as Veach not being able to close a deal in my mind.

Gotta love the projection LMAO

Don't care, didn't want him anyway.

And this.

Start looking at guys who are 6'-1"+ and can run, because i bet that's what the Chiefs are looking at.

We're gonna start the season with a Rookie LT/RT, Lucas "i gave chase young all he could handle" Niang, and a Rookie WR.

I think we coulda guessed that though when Williams signed with SF.

It's not a great FA class. Not many guys out there this year worth paying.

Start queing up those mother****in' WR highlight videos because the impact FA signing period is effectively over.

We can shift our focus to the draft full time at this point.

This draft is a HUGE value draft.

The highest paid positions in the nfl (OT, WR, EDGE) are deep in this draft class snd we have needs in all 3.

It’s an ideal situation for incoming draft picks, too.

WRs get to play with the best QB in football.
DE gets to play with Jones, Clark and other talented guys to help him blossom.
The OT gets to play next to a second team all pro that will help him acclimate snd excel and in front of a HOF QB

The 3 kids we put in those positions are going to have HUGE OPPORTUNITIES to look really good.

If we hit on all 3 picks, that’s MASSIVE to the future salary cap. Especially if Niang turns out to be good, too...which I think he will.

For a true starting X receiver, I agree. There might be a couple of guys worthy of throwing low risk deals at yet, but yeah, we're taking a receiver early this year.

I don’t think you know what that word means. I’m just going by RunKC’s logic. If free agency was a disaster and the absolute best we can hope for is a solid draft because the “law of averages”, sounds like we’re ****ed.

Rashod Bateman and Terrace Marshall in the first round.
There are a ton of guys in the middle of the draft.

All he said was we missed on 5 of 6 of the players we tried to get. You took that as not only is the off season over, but the season overall too. LMAO How?!? You gotta start doing breathing exercises before you post. You're way too worked up.

I'm completely on board with a first round WR, but in that scenario how are we addressing LT? Unless they sign a vet FA as a stopgap I don't see how you're not forced to take an OT in round 1. Signing someone like Okung of course opens up your options.

And if their plan is to trade for a LT I would assume that involves the RD 1 pick, so we're not getting a WR there in that case. I'm anxious to see how this plays out.

Here’s a theory. Somebody like Rankin or Niang plays LT but we re sign Fisher. He comes back when he’s fully healthy

WR in round 1. Trade up on round two for Walker Little, Dillon Radunz, hell....Liam Eichenberg.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">While a signing could come of this at some point, the thinking is that the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Browns?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Browns</a> pursued Clowney last year, but never really got to sit down with him face-to-face. That happens now, and we’ll see if they get together on a deal. <a href="https://t.co/oQi22gAfVr">https://t.co/oQi22gAfVr</a></p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1374830402658045959?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Hope they sign him.

Man, Little is a talented player but having both of our hopeful bookends of the future be guys that had season ending surgery in 19 then opting out in 20 is a nerve-wracking thought.

It is what it is at this point. It’s going to depend on if he can start day one and be good to go. I’m still in the camp of signing Okung and bringing in a rookie as competition.

It’s extremely high upside, though.

Neither injury is one you’d expect to end a career or even actually diminish a guy. Gives KC the opportunity to get guys they otherwise wouldn’t have been in position to acquire.

Let’s say they take Walker Little as their LT of the future. If he and Niang both hit, it’s like getting two first round values at highly important positions in the same draft.

It might not hit the ground running in 2021, but that’s why your bring in Remmers and another vet as insurance at LT if you can.

We had the following options at LT:

1. Keep Fisher and draft a LT to start.
2. Sign Trent Williams and draft a developmental LT
3. Sign a veteran stop gap and draft a LT for competition.
4. Draft a rookie LT and start him immediately.

Exactly. Dude needs to chill LMAO

There's always....Antonio Brown

Wouldn't be too shocked, Veach loves his talent.

Wrong. The other was a cross thread reference. He said exactly what I said he did.

Our cap is screwed for next season. This is based on a cap space of 203 million next season

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I just saw how much Chris Jones and Patrick Mahomes cap numbers bumped up for 2022 after looking at your tweet. DANG! <a href="https://t.co/Hlj0BolkM0">https://t.co/Hlj0BolkM0</a></p>&mdash; Nick Jacobs (@Jacobs71) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jacobs71/status/1374838149071966208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Mahomes has a roster bonus of $27 million and Jones has one for $18 million. Plus we can cut Hitchens and June 1st cut Clark if they aren’t worth it.

F**K IT!!..DUNLAP, BOUYE, ALEXANDER AND HUMPHRIE GET YOUR VET MIN ASSES ON A PLANE TO KC NOW!!..AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE!!..CAUSE UCB SAID SOOOOOO!!

How much would Clark save against the cap?

$6.8 million in dead money. $19.5 million in cap savings.

In other words, he gone.

Yeah, if he has another season like this last one....no way he sticks around.

Even if he actually performs that number is changing regardless.

The problem there is we already have enough needs as it is including DE even with Clark on the roster. Get rid of Clark (which I do think is the right move) and our DE depth chart is probably one of the worst in the league. The clear answer is to draft a DE, but you generally don't find elite DE talent in the draft outside of the first round. And considering the first two picks this year probably should include strong consideration at WR and LT, that seems to leave us in a bit of a pickle.

Of course KC does have next year's draft, and that's absolutely why anyone hoping we trade a 2022 1st in some trade for a LT needs to forget that idea. 1st round picks are way too valuable to be trading them off.

No. It isn't.

Mahomes' roster bonus will get converted if needed.

Clark will get adjusted. Hill will get extended and have his number lowered.

The Chiefs are not going to be in a position where they're in trouble against the cap.

I also doubt it ONLY goes up $10M from this year, considering the TV deals getting finalized and the likelihood of huge bouncebacks in stadium revenue.

They could start Thuney OR Niang at left tackle.

Niang, maybe. I don’t see them moving Thuney.

Where are you seeing Hill will get extended? By every indication he declined redoing his deal specifically so he can test the market in 2023

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It&#39;s perplexing why the Chiefs seem to be striking out after signing Thuney. There are many factors that go into free agency so there isn&#39;t a simple explanation. <a href="https://t.co/zcF6yV0897">https://t.co/zcF6yV0897</a></p>&mdash; Geoff Schwartz (@geoffschwartz) <a href="https://twitter.com/geoffschwartz/status/1374820903117291523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

He literally didn’t restructure because he will sign an extension. He doesn’t owe anyone a restructure as he’s already severely underpaid

Hmm

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">That would be lit.</p>&mdash; Golden Tate (@ShowtimeTate) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShowtimeTate/status/1374825339839508496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

**** it. Would rather sign him than re-sign Sammy.

Veach get Golden Tate now!! He still has some left in the tank